Tag: collapse

When partners Alberto Arias, 53, and Osvaldo Gonzalez, 57, spent the day helping Arias’ mother move, no one would expect that they’d be two of the six victims to lose their life in the collapse of the pedestrian bridge near Florida International University (FIU). The Cuban couple had been together for 21 years and were in the process of running errands during the move, says the Miami Herald. The couple died instantly when the bridge collapse on their truck...

22 people have been injured after the dancefloor of a gay club collapsed. Fire and rescue services were called to the Butterfly in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife, on the Spanish island’s south coast, at 2.30am Sunday. A four metre long section of the ground floor caved in as people danced, with debris from the collapse filling the basement. YouTube footage from the disaster shows steel wires hanging from the ceiling, rubble piled up on the floor and supports propping up what...