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On June 16, 2015, five Irish J-1 visa students and one Irish-American died and seven others were injured after a balcony on which they were standing collapsed. The group was celebrating a 21st birthday party in Berkeley, California. The district attorney of Alameda County is launching a criminal probe into the incident.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alameda County DA's office to lead criminal probe into Berkeley balcony collapse )〕 In June 2015, Mayor Tom Bates of Berkeley promised a broad and wide ranging investigating into the cause of the accident with the likely cause being that the balcony of the building was not constructed properly leading to dry rot developing, leading to the balcony to become structurally compromised. Overwhelming evidence points to dry rot as having caused the collapse, and not the weight of the 13 students on it at the time. ==Details== One of the six killed was a dual Irish-American citizen, Ashley Donohoe, 22, of Rohnert Park, California. The five others were Olivia Burke (Donohue's cousin), Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai 'Nick' Schuster, Lorcán Miller and Eimear Walsh, all aged 21 and from Dublin, Ireland.〔Rodriguez, Olga. (Cousins killed in Berkeley balcony collapse had twin bond ), Yahoo News, June 20, 2015.〕 ''The New York Times'' published an article reporting the deaths and suggested the deceased were to blame for the collapse. The paper stated that Irish students coming to the US on J-1 visas are an "embarrassment to Ireland". The Irish Taioseach Enda Kenny and former President of Ireland Mary McAleese criticised the newspaper for "being insensitive and inaccurate" in its handling of the story.” The newspaper subsequently apologized, with the article still available at its website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 'New York Times' apology was a sorry attempt to right a wrong )〕 ''The Irish Star'' and ''Irish Examiner'' newspapers caused controversy by publishing an image of a body bag lying on the ground. A Galway newsagent removed the two papers as a protest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berkeley balcony collapse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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