On March 2, local time, the guardrail of the corridor on the fourth floor of a public university in El Alto, Bolivia suddenly broke. It is reported that the falling height is about 16.7 meters. Images on social media show that when the fall accident happened, some students had an argument and caused confusion.
El Alto City Police Department said that students majoring in business administration at El Alto Public University held a meeting on the fourth floor of the building that morning, and there were dozens of students in the corridor outside the meeting room. In the crowd, the metal guardrail of the corridor suddenly broke, and six boys and two girls fell from the fourth floor and landed on the concrete floor of 1 building.
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The police's preliminary judgment:
Aguilera, commander-in-chief of the Bolivian National Police, said in an interview with local media that students majoring in business administration at the public university in El Alto held a meeting on the fourth floor of the building that morning. The police initially judged that the cause of the tragedy was crowded people and improper welding of the guardrail.
After the accident, Bolivian President Arce posted a message on his social media Twitter account, expressing regret over the tragedy, saying that he "expects the facts to be clarified quickly".
Xiamen Net-Seven students were killed when the guardrail of a university in Bolivia broke.