3 Students Remain Hospitalized Days After Floor Collapsed During Clemson Homecoming Frat Party

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Three Clemson University students remain hospitalized on Tuesday after thefloor collapsed during a frat partyat a clubhouse near the South Carolina campus over the weekend, PEOPLE confirms.

At least 30 people were taken to local hospitals early Sunday morning after the floor suddenly caved in during the rowdy party at the apartment clubhouse that began Saturday night. Now, days later, three students are still in the hospital with non life-threatening injuries, Joe Galbraith, associate athletic director for Clemson’s athletic communications, tells PEOPLE.

“There was a lot of chaos,” witness Riccardo Arroyo toldABC Newsof the incident. “You could hear screams, screams I’ve never heard before except in movies. There was blood everywhere.”

One victim, Nicole Dennis, toldTodaythat a woman told the group to “stop jumping.”

“It was so loud so obviously no one heard her. Then they kept jumping and you heard, like, ‘creek creek’ and then the whole thing fell,” Dennis said.

Another witness, Larissa Stone, told theIndependent Mailthat the room was “packed.”

“The beat was about to drop and literally the whole floor collapsed,” she told the site. “It happened so quickly. I stood up, and everyone was trying to climb out. People are under other people. People are hurt. People are bleeding. I had blood on my sneakers. It was really bad.”

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Todd Steadman, director of Clemson city’s planning and codes department, said the occupancy for the clubhouse’s upstairs area was 135, according toUSA Today. And officials are working to determine how many people were in the room at the time.

Of the 30 people at the party, 29 of them were students from Clemson and other colleges, according toToday. Many suffered broken bones and lacerations.

source: people.com