Community mourns two people killed in western Germany hotel collapse
Aug 12, 2024
Trier [Germany], August 12: Residents, relatives and rescue workers gathered for a memorial service in the western German village of Krov on Sunday to commemorate those killed in a hotel collapse.
Two people, a 64-year-old woman and the 59-year-old hotel owner, died when the multi-storey hotel in the village about 100km west of Frankfurt collapsed with 14 people inside on Tuesday evening.
Participants at the service, held in the parish garden of the local church, observed moments of silence and prayed for a 26-year-old Dutch man who was severely injured and placed in an induced coma.
"We trust that he will fully recover," the man's father, Auke Hoefnagel, said in an address after the service.
Police said earlier on Sunday that the man's condition "isn't good." The man, his 23-year-old wife and their 2-year-old son were among seven people trapped in the rubble for several hours before rescue workers were able to free them.
Five people were able to escape the site immediately.
A crowdfunding campaign set up following the collapse raised some $59,000 for the Dutch family by Sunday. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
