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March 2021 – Video footage has captured the tragic moment when students thronging the fourth floor balcony of a university in Bolivia plummeted to their deaths after the railing gave way.
Seven students were killed and five others injured at the Public University of El Alto, second-largest city in Bolivia. The incident occurred as dozens of students crammed onto the balcony to enter a lecture hall for an assembly on Tuesday.
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_The disturbing video footage, captured by a bystander moment before the students fell, shows them jostling while leaning against the railing which collapsed due to the pressure of the crowd. A number of them then went crashing down to the concrete floor while a few were pulled up by those still on the balcony.
A student in blue jacket was saved by other students as she dangled upside down as her colleagues grab her shoes to rescue her.
The cause of death was identified as “multiple defenestration trauma,” Bolivian police chief Colonel Jhonny Aguilera told reporters.
_An investigation has been ordered into the incident and the woman who was rescued would be questioned to find details.
Those dead and injured are aged between 20 to 27.
“From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilised,” health minister Jayson Auza said.
“Our deepest condolences to the people of El Alto and to the suffering families. We await the prompt clarification of the facts,” Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Twitter.
According to Bolivia's Special Force to Fight Crime, the students who lost their lives were identified as Raúl Cadena, Genio Mamani, Saúl Mamani, Daniel Rodríguez, Anahí Chipana, Loida Sosa and Tania Roque.
The bodies have been handed over to the families without delay for last rights, the police said.
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Sounded like some sort of woke protest, karma I'd say.
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Maybe read the fucking post maybe you illiterate cunt. These are university students waiting to get to an assembly.
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Hahahaha truth hurts and causes such reactions as can be seen in your comment! You just repeated what I said, basically. Universities are nothing more than indoctrination camps to create the most brain dead NPCs for the woke agenda that have ever existed, OBVIOUSLY. I have witnessed it first hand, but this one has been immune to the bs. I bet 9 out of 10 of them would consider thenselves being woke and have attended at least one progressively regressive protest already.
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Hey I know this might seem crazy to you because you've never been allowed within 500 yards of a school, nor attended one. But these assembly's are required 9/10. Most likely or it is an award ceremony. Also this is an entirely different country you're putting American politics onto. What a smoothbrain.
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