50 injured in roof collapse.AT least 50 people were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. when the roof of an exhibition hall collapsed in Poland yesterday. A rescue operation was mounted and police warned the toll was expected to rise. It was thought that as many as 500 bird-fanciers were inside the building for a carrier pigeon pigeon, common name for members of the large family Columbidae, land birds, cosmopolitan in temperate and tropical regions, characterized by stout bodies, short necks, small heads, and thick, heavy plumage. show. The drama happened in the southern city of Katowice, and it is thought the weight of snow on the roof caused the cave-in. Last night, Katowice police spokesman Janusz Jonczyk said: "There could be up to 500 people still inside." Earlier this month, 15 people died at an ice-skating rink in the town of Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall (bät rī`khənhäl) or Reichenhall, town (1994 pop. 17,050), Bavaria, S central Germany, on the Saalach River, near the Austrian border. It is a year-round health resort. in southern Germany when a roof collapsed under the weight of fallen snow. All but three of the dead were children. |
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