6 dead, 7 injured in Berkeley balcony collapse

BERKELEY, Calif. — A fourth-floor patio of a California unit building collapsed Tuesday, murdering six Irish students and withdrawal seven other people with vicious injuries during a 21st birthday party, officials said.

All 5 of a passed in a college city of Berkeley were in a U.S. on proxy work visas, Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan pronounced in Dublin.

Police were operative with glow and building officials to establish what caused a accident. No information was accessible on a identities of a victims.

Police perceived a sound censure concerning a shrill celebration in a unit about an hour before a patio collapsed during 12:41 a.m. though had not nonetheless responded, pronounced Officer Byron White, orator for a Berkeley Police Department.

The balcony, estimated to have been 5 feet by 10 feet, distant totally from a building and landed on a reduce balcony.

“What a initial responders pronounced is it was utterly disturbing,” White said.

Two Irish students defunct in a building pronounced they listened a crash during a accident.

“I walked out and we saw rubble on a travel and a garland of Irish students crying,” pronounced Mark Neville, who has been in a U.S. for 3 weeks underneath a J-1 visa program.

“I only listened a crash and a lot of shouting,” combined Dan Sullivan, 21.

The building in a heart of downtown Berkeley has apartments in a top floors and sell shops during belligerent level. The walkable community only blocks from a University of California, Berkeley, is dotted with museums, a city library, restaurants, coffee shops and sequence stores.

The Library Gardens apartments were built in 2006, a Los Angeles Times reported.

Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs pronounced it was perplexing to hit families of a victims and could not give sum of their identities. Four died during a stage and one in a hospital, officials said.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins pronounced in a matter that he had “heard with a biggest unhappiness of a terrible detriment of life of immature Irish people and a vicious damage of others in Berkeley, California today. My heart goes out to a families and desired ones of all those involved.”

Jerry Robinson, who lives nearby, told San Francisco news hire KGO-TV that he had only gotten out of a film when dual excitable people flagged down his automobile seeking for a float to a sanatorium to check on harmed friends.

“They were friends of a people who were on a balcony. A integrate of a women did not have shoes. One of a women had blood on her knees,” he said.

The Irish consul ubiquitous in San Francisco was providing assistance to those affected.

6 dead, 7 injured in Berkeley balcony collapse