Sentence examples for balcony collapse from inspiring English sources

The New York Times's public editor has criticised the newspaper's coverage of the California balcony collapse, in which five Irish students were killed, as "insensitive".

The perceived implication that the celebrating students may have in some way been to blame for the balcony collapse sparked hurt and fury.

In the aftermath of Tuesday's balcony collapse in downtown Berkeley, which took the lives of six students and critically injured seven others, the UC Berkeley community is rallying to offer solace, support and counseling to those struggling to cope.

Meanwhile, city and federal officials began investigations into the balcony collapse, and new citations were issued to Big Apple as well as to a subcontractor and the owner of the project.

Former president of Ireland Mary McAleese has written a stinging critique of a New York Times article portraying a "lazy, tabloid stereotype" of Irish students in the wake of the California balcony collapse that left six people dead.

No criminal charges in Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six, injured seven.

The fourth-floor balcony collapsed around 2 40 a.m.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A balcony collapsed inside the Indonesia Stock Exchange building complex in Jakarta on Monday, injuring more than 70 people, according to the police.

Early Tuesday, 13 people, most of them young Irish students here on the visa program, were crowded onto a fourth-floor balcony off Unit 405 for what neighbors described as a loud party when the balcony collapsed, sending people tumbling onto the street below.

Elsewhere in the city, in the much poorer district of Centro Habana, Yolendis Castillo and Maria del Carmen Arregoitia - both aged 27 - died when a fourth floor balcony collapsed on a bus in which they were travelling.

Berkeley city officials gave no timeline for the release of findings on why the balcony collapsed.