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Nightclub balcony falls, killing two South Koreans and injuring aquatic athletes from the US, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy and Brazil

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epa07743465 Foreign athletes who are in South Korea for the 18th FINA World Championships are taken to an emergency room after suffering injuries from a loft collapse inside a nightclub, at a hospital in Gwangju, Soiuth Korea, 27 July 2019. According media reports, a loft inside the nightclub in the southwestern city of Gwangju collapsed early 27 July, killing two people and injuring more than 10, including athletes competing at the 18th FINA World Championships. EPA-EFE/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT - IMAGE PIXELLATED AT SOURCE

Two South Koreans have died and several others, including athletes attending the world aquatic championships, have been injured after a structure collapsed in a nightclub in the city of Gwangju early on Saturday, a fire department official has said.

The floor gave way at the club in the city of Gwangju at about 2 a.m. (1700 GMT Friday), pinning people underneath, a Gwangju Fire Department official said, adding that at least 10 people were injured.

Hundreds were inside the seven-storey nightclub at the time. The BBC reported the two people killed were aged 38 and 27, and were not competitors at the championships.

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Yonhap news agency reported that nine athletes competing in the 2019 Fina aquatic World Championships were injured, though none of them seriously. Their injuries ranged from bruising to lacerations on their hands or feet, the agency said.

“We were just dancing and then the next minute we dropped five to six metres and everyone started rushing out of the club after that,” said New Zealand men’s water polo team captain Matt Small.

“We … fell on top of the heads of other people that were beneath us,” he told New Zealand’s Radio Sport.

“Some of them were pretty dire cases,” he said of the injured.

Via BBC / The Guardian

Topics BrazilFINAItalyNetherlandsNew ZealandSouth KoreaUSA