AT least even people were killed and six injured after part of a ferry dock collapsed, sending people plunging into the water.
Crowds had been gathering for a fall festival on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, organised by tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
Part of a ferry collapsed on Sapelo Island, Georgia[/caption]
At least seven people were killed after Saturday’s horror[/caption]
Eight people were rushed to the hospital, at least six of them with critical injuries, authorities said.
A gangway at the dock collapsed, sending at least 20 people plunging into the water, Natural Resources spokesperson Tyler Jones said.
Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching the water.
The agency operates the dock and ferry boats that transport people between the island and the mainland.
The spokesperson added that team of engineers and construction specialists planned to be on site early Sunday to begin investigating why the walkway failed.
“There was no collision” with a boat or anything else, Jones said.
“The thing just collapsed. We don’t know why.”
Helicopters and boats with side-scanning sonar were used in the search, according to a Department of Natural Resources statement.
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