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Six people were injured when a balcony collapsed in the German city of Hamburg late on Wednesday. A 30-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries, said a spokesman for the fire brigade. Two other people suffered moderate injuries and three had minor injuries. All six people on the balcony, five men and one woman, were hospitalized. The accident in Hamburg’s Langenhorn district occurred shortly after 9:30 pm (1930 GMT). The causes of the collapse were initially unclear. The balcony was on the third floor of an apartment block from the 1960s or 1970s. The flats on the affected side of the b…