Authorities say at least seven people were killed Saturday after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. Tyler Jones is a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He says a gangway at the dock collapsed and sent people plunging into the water. Multiple people were taken to hospitals, and crews from the U.S.
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Multiple people were taken to hospitals, and crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching the water for any other survivors, said Tyler Jones, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Jones said a gangway at the dock collapsed and sent people plunging into the water. It happened as crowds gathered on the island for a celebration of its tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
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