Five killed in California balcony collapse
A NUMBER of Irish citizens are among the five people killed when the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California, gave way.
FIVE people have died, including several Irish citizens, and eight more people are injured after an apartment balcony collapsed in the college town of Berkeley, California.
LOCAL NBC affiliate KNTV reported that many of the wounded have critical, life-threatening injures, quoting a police spokeswoman.
Aussie mum suspected murdered overseas
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Deadly disease detected in two major cities
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