The building -- built in 2006, according to Sky News -- has apartments in the upper floors and retail shops on the ground floor.
5 dead, 8 injured in balcony collapse in California, police say
A balcony collapsed Tuesday at an apartment building in Berkeley, Calif., killing at least five Irish students and leaving eight others injured, authorities said.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan told reporters in Dublin that the students were in the U.S. on temporary visas.
Many of the injured have critical, life-threatening wounds, Officer Jennifer Coats, a spokeswoman with the Berkeley Police Department, said. Flanagan said four died at the scene and one at a hospital.
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