Two people were killed after a hotel in the picturesque Moselle wine valley of Germany fell over night, according to local police on Wednesday. Rescuers were frantically trying to free the two guests who were still inside the debris.
Rescue operation chief Joerg Teusch informed reporters that while the body of one victim, a woman, had been retrieved, the body of the second victim, a man, had not yet been reached by emergency personnel.
Teusch reported that five individuals had been rescued from the complex operation—none of whom had suffered major injuries—after the upper level of the two-story structure collapsed late on Tuesday.
Despite having severe injuries, the two individuals who remain trapped in the 17th-century structure that was refurbished in the 1980s are in contact with rescuers, according to police.
Among those rescued was a two-year-old child, who was not injured, and the child’s parents, with whom rescuers were able to establish contact overnight.
