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More than 30 hurt in off-campus deck collapse in Connecticut

More than 30 hurt in off-campus deck collapse in Connecticut

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTFORD: Police say between 30 and 40 people have been hurt after a deck collapsed at an off-campus party at a house near Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. No major injuries have been reported. Deputy Chief Brian Foley of the Hartford police posted on his Twitter feed early Sunday that a third-floor deck of a house collapsed onto a second-floor deck, which subsequently fell onto a first-floor deck late Saturday. Foley says the injured have been sent to area hospitals. He says the building, located about two-tenths of a mile from the Trinity campus, was not owned by the college. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said in a statement that it was lucky there were 'no fatalities or no known critical injuries from what could have been a truly tragic incident.' Trinity College is a liberal arts school in Hartford with about 2,200 students. It's the second-oldest college in Connecticut after Yale.