A woman and a man were killed in the accident, a police spokesperson said.
Berlin:
Rescue teams were working Wednesday to free people trapped after part of a hotel collapsed in western Germany, killing two people and injuring several others, authorities said.
A floor at the hotel in Kroev, a town about 110 kilometres (70 miles) west of Frankfurt, collapsed for unknown reasons around 11:00 p.m. (21:00 GMT) on Tuesday, police said in a statement.
A woman and a man were killed in the accident, police spokesman Joerg Teusch told reporters on Wednesday.
Of the 14 people inside at the time, five managed to escape.
Emergency services rescued one man, a child and two women on Wednesday morning.
“We were able to make contact with the seven buried people and four of them were rescued with minor injuries, so it's a miracle,” Teusch said.
Three people are still trapped under the rubble, he said, and they are “probably seriously injured.”
The rescue operation was difficult “because the building could only be entered with the utmost caution,” police said.
Thirty-one residents from the area were evacuated and about 250 search and rescue workers were on site.
According to Dutch media, a Dutch family of three was among those involved in the incident.
Mother and child were pulled from the water alive, but the father is still in custody, the Dutch press agency ANP reports.
The family reportedly came from Urk, a small fishing village in the north of the Netherlands.
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