Crane collapses on to roof of supermarket in Germany

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A building crane has collapsed on to a supermarket in western Germany, killing one person and injuring at least five others, police say.

Rescuers were struggling to comb through the wreckage of the Aldi supermarket in the town of Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, because parts of the building remained at risk of collapse, police said.

"It can't be ruled out that more people are [trapped] in that area," the police said. Two of the injured were reported to be in serious condition.

The crane fell on to the checkout area of the supermarket shortly before noon on Wednesday, the Bad Homburg police spokesman Siegfried Schlott told Associated Press.

It had been stationed at a construction site next door.

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