Man killed as balcony of a house collapses

October 6th, 2009 Floor collapses during Ohio 'ghost walk'GERMANTOWN, Ohio — Fire officials say a "ghost walk" tour had a scary ending in Ohio when the floor of a 164-year-old log cabin collapsed, injuring two people. Fire Chief Dan Alldred says the first floor of the Toll House gave way as the local historical society was wrapping up Sunday evening's tour in Germantown, 13 miles southwest of Dayton.

October 4th, 2009 SURAT - Five people of a family were pulled out alive from the debris of an old three-story house that collapsed here on Saturday night. All the Bohra family members were in the building when the house collapsed but were extracted out of it with minor injuries.

September 23rd, 2009 20 die in chimney collapse at power plant in IndiaNEW DELHI — A large chimney under construction at a power plant in central India collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring five others, police said. As many as 100 workers were feared trapped under the rubble.

September 20th, 2009 BATALA - Five members of a family, including three children, died when the roof of their one-room house collapsed in Aula Mohalla of Punjab's Batala city on Sunday morning. According to reports, the roof of the house had weakened by recent rains, collapsed in the wee hours of Sunday resulting in instant death of five members who were asleep.

September 9th, 2009 FARIDABAD - One person was killed and several others were feared trapped inside the debris of a three-storey building, which collapsed on Wednesday in Haryana's Faridabad district. According to the police, at least two people were taken out of the debris with serious injuries shortly after City Centre building, collapsed.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - At least 19 persons suffered injuries, three of them seriously, when an under-construction three-storey building collapsed in East Delhi on Tuesday. The incident occurred at around 4.30 in Ramnagar area of Mandoli in East Delhi near Shahdara area, as another floor was being built on the three-story building.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man, who loves to stay naked in his balcony in summers, has attracted fury of his neighbours. His neighbours in Suining, Sichuan province have begun to pelt him with soybeans from slingshots, reports the China Daily.

August 10th, 2009 Lenin statue collapses, kills man in BelarusMINSK, Belarus —A massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it Monday, killing him on the spot, authorities said. The 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-foot)-high plaster monument and hung from its arm, the Emergency Situations ministry said.

July 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An underconstruction bridge of the Delhi Metro collapsed in south Delhi Sunday, injuring at least 20 people, many of them critically, an official said. The accident took place at around 5 a.m.

July 12th, 2009 3 killed, 16 injured in New Delhi bridge collapseNEW DELHI — A concrete slab slipped and crushed the metal beams of a bridge under construction in New Delhi on Sunday, killing three people and injuring 16, police said. The accident happened early Sunday as workers lifted heavy concrete slabs for the bridge, part of the city's new metro rail system, police spokesman Mohammed Iqlaq said.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three people, including a 12-year-old, died early Friday after a wall of a mill collapsed here, police said. The wall of a pulse mill in Narela, northwest Delhi, collapsed and fell on an adjacent house.

May 28th, 2009 Subhash Nagar,JODHEWAL - Four persons were killed and eleven others injured as the roof of a building collapsed in Punjab. The incident happened when the labourers were renovating the building.

March 31st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - One worker was killed and nearly 30 others were injured Tuesday when the roof of a building under construction came crashing down at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) campus in the Kerala capital. Eight of the injured are in a serious condition.

February 15th, 2009 PATNA - Three people were killed and four injured Monday when a buiridge under construction over a rail line collapsed in Bihar, an official said. The incident took place at Amgola in Muzaffarpur district, about 70 km from here.

February 12th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has spoofed Micheal Jackson's infamous incident of dangling his son Prince Michael II from the fourth floor of a hotel room in Germany in 2002. Kutcher, who was in Germany for the premiere of his wife Demi Moore's film, 'Happy Tears' was in the same fourth floor room of the hotel where in 2002 Jackson brandished his son, reports dailymail.co.uk.