Wermelskirchen Center - The Saturday night will not miss a 76-year-old woman so quickly. For while the pensioner was sleeping peacefully in her bed, she collapsed on the blanket and buried under concrete and screed. The miracle: She survived almost unscathed.
A neighbor was about 1:35 clock by a loud bang from the neighboring apartment and subsequent pleas for help from his sleep was broken. He alerted the police immediately. The officials were very surprised when in the hallway of the ground floor flat of an apartment building in the street Dhünn a totally distraught, and his whole body covered with white dust encountered 76-year-old woman.
Upon entering the apartment, then showed a picture of devastation: the complete concrete and screed filling the timber rafter roof had tumbled down from the approximately 20 square-meter ceiling and landed on the floor or the bed.
Miraculously, the 76-year-old suffered only minor abrasions and lacerations on his face. She was taken to hospital but the treatment to the eye hospital in Cologne Merheim. With the collapse they had received large amounts of lime in the eye.
The property has been confiscated. An associated structural engineers were now all clear for the multiple dwelling. An immediate threat to neighboring homes, he graduated from. According to the Fire Department will be made more detailed investigations of the floors of other houses during the day.
