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A woman was pulled out of the rubble alive on Wednesday, nearly 24 hours after after a hotel in western Germany partially collapsed killing two people. A spokesman for the fire brigade said that the last survivor trapped in the building was extracted amid applause in the town of Kröv, on the Moselle River in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Rescue workers had been in contact with the woman and had been hopeful they would be able to extract her before the end of the day. The tragedy occurred late on Tuesday evening when one floor of the multi-storey hotel collapsed with 14 people inside. Two …

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