German hotel fire claims six lives

Firefighters with the 106th Rescue Wing train to remove victims from a burning aircraft at FS Gabreski (ANG) on Aug. 15, 2012.

It’s believed six people are dead after a fire broke out at a German hotel, police say.

“We have to assume they are dead,” police spokesman Juergen Thalmeier said on Saturday of the victims previously declared missing. Authorities no longer believed that the six could have survived the flames.

At least seven people were injured, five of them seriously, in the fire that broke out in an Upper Bavarian resort hotel in the early morning. They were evacuated to hospital by helicopter.

Police said 47 people had been staying in the hotel when the fire started.

The six victims are believed to be employees of the same company in Lower Bavaria.

 

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