Toddler, 2, pulled from wreckage after deadly hotel collapse
This is the harrowing moment a child was pulled out from the wreckage of a hotel in western Germany.
At least one person has died after one storey of Reichsschenke Zum Ritter Götz in the town of Kröv partially collapsed at about 11pm on Tuesday.
Four people were rescued overnight, but several others remain trapped under the rubble.
Emergency workers announced that they had managed the ‘very difficult’, adding that a two-year-old child and its parents are among those who were saved.
Footage from the scene shows a toddler being carried out, followed by a woman believed to be his mother.
The operation is understood to be so complex that even the remains of the victim have still not been recovered from under the slabs of concrete.
Some 14 people were in the hotel at the time of the collapse. Police said five were able to get out of the building unhurt, but another nine were trapped.
Public broadcaster SWR said witnesses reported hearing a loud bang and seeing a large cloud of dust at the time of the collapse.
Authorities evacuated 31 people from the area immediately around the damaged building. There was no immediate word on what caused the collapse.
Police said it was ‘an extremely demanding deployment, because emergency personnel can only enter the building with the greatest caution’.
They said that some 250 emergency workers, including drone specialists, were at the scene, as well as rescue dogs.
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