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Floor Collapse Traps Guests and Injures Six
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A structural failure of the second-floor balcony in a Tamworth, N.H., event space has trapped multiple guests while injuring six people. Emergency crews are currently working to rescue those stuck under debris following reports that at least 12 individuals were affected by the incident on Wednesday morning. Authorities have launched an investigation into how this sudden collapse occurred during what was described as a wedding reception for over two dozen attendees, though no fatalities or fire has been reported yet.
Key Points
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1A floor collapsed during Saturday's wedding ceremony in Tamworth, New Hampshire, injuring six people and trapping approximately seventy others.
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2The collapse occurred around 4:30 p.m. at The Preserve venue (also referred to as Sap House), sending about seven dozen guests into the basement from a nearly eight hundred-square-foot space that was reportedly over capacity with one-fourty four occupants present.
Developments
Mar 24
(17:38) Daily Mail reports six injured and about seventy trapped following the floor collapse at a New Hampshire wedding venue in Tamworth on Saturday, March 20.