district of Osnabrueck
Balcony railing tears off: Five people fall down
Rescue workers from Malteser and the fire brigade are on duty in Fürstenau. photo
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Serious accident in Lower Saxony: Five people fell from a balcony and, according to the police, were injured, some of them life-threateningly.
Five men fell from the balcony of a family home in Fürstenau near Osnabrück. Two of them were life-threatening, three seriously injured, said a spokesman for the Osnabrück police inspection of the German Press Agency.
The injured were taken to hospitals. The accident happened when the men, aged between 36 and 48, leaned against the wooden balcony railing, which suddenly tore off. They had hit a terrace from a height of about three and a half meters.
The balcony itself was not broken off, the spokesman explained. A police statement had previously said people had been hit or buried by debris.