Five men fell from the balcony of a family home in Fürstenau near Osnabrück. Two of them were life-threatening, three seriously injured, said a spokesman for the Osnabrück police inspection of the German Press Agency.
The injured were taken to hospitals. The accident happened when the men, aged between 36 and 48, leaned against the wooden balcony railing, which suddenly tore off. They had hit a terrace from a height of about three and a half meters.
The balcony itself was not broken off, the spokesman explained. A police statement had previously said people had been hit or buried by debris.
