The ministry’s report said the suspended walkway fell because several cables broke away from the ceiling due to a “concentration of weight” in one spot where nearly 100 university students visiting the exchange had gathered.
LA PAZ: At least seven students died and five were seriously injured when they fell from the fourth floor of a university building in Bolivia after a metal railing gave way on Tuesday, the government said.
Footage of the incident shows students crammed into a narrow passageway trying to enter an assembly hall. A metal railing can be seen giving way under the weight of the pushing and shoving students, with several plummeting to the concrete floor below at the El Alto university near La Paz.
Others clutched onto fellow students to escape the same fate. “From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilized” in hospitals in the city of El Alto, near La Paz, Health Minister Jayson Auza said.
Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo had earlier reported five deaths and three injuries related to the incident, but the total was revised after the Health Ministry reviewed the case’s details.
The injured and deceased were between the ages of 20 and 24. Del Castillo said he had ordered an investigation into the accident.
When your time is up, your time is UP. There's no hiding whatsoever.
A real close shave for that lady who was literally on the edge of death, luckily folks managed to pull her back up.
Additional footage for your viewing pleasure. Maybe the railings were made of 50% metal 50% noodles. ;)
Natural selection at work to weed out some fucktards, so no love lost there.
LA PAZ: At least seven students died and five were seriously injured when they fell from the fourth floor of a university building in Bolivia after a metal railing gave way on Tuesday, the government said.
Footage of the incident shows students crammed into a narrow passageway trying to enter an assembly hall. A metal railing can be seen giving way under the weight of the pushing and shoving students, with several plummeting to the concrete floor below at the El Alto university near La Paz.
Others clutched onto fellow students to escape the same fate. “From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilized” in hospitals in the city of El Alto, near La Paz, Health Minister Jayson Auza said.
Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo had earlier reported five deaths and three injuries related to the incident, but the total was revised after the Health Ministry reviewed the case’s details.
The injured and deceased were between the ages of 20 and 24. Del Castillo said he had ordered an investigation into the accident.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/798693-seven-students-plummet-to-death-at-bolivia-university