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At approximately 15:00 UTC on Monday January 2, 2006, the roof of a 1970s-built ice rink collapsed under the weight of heavy snowfall in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border, trapping 50 underneath the rubble. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... To suggest a relevant news story for the main page, refer to the criteria then add your suggestion at the candidates page. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rockefeller Centre ice rink An ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. ... Alte Saline (old salt refinery) former Townhall Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...

Fifteen people were killed, with the last body being recovered early on January 5. Eight children are known to have died. Thirty-two people were injured. Weather conditions in the area were extremely severe, an avalanche having killed two people nearby earlier in the day. January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... A Himalayan avalanche. ...

The rescue was temporarily halted on January 3 due to fears that the walls of the ice rink could collapse, endangering firemen, police and rescue workers. However it resumed in the early hours of the next morning. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The accident has provoked outrage in the town as it emerged that officials had halted the training session of an ice hockey team inside the rink due to fears that the wall could collapse. Prior to the disaster, officials had planned to close the ice rink on Monday 3 January as snowfall was continuing. However, and as many meteorologists pointed out, the weather and snow conditions were not unusual for the time of the year as the town lies in a popular winter sport area of Southern Germany. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Local officials examined the collapsed roof on Monday and suggested that the accumulated snow was below the limit for the roof.

External links

• USA Today story on the collapse
• Ice rink death toll climbs to five, Ireland Online
• German ice rink toll climbs to 14, cnn.com
• Pressing questions over rink tragedy
• 'Final body' found at German rink, BBC News