Eyewitness video captures frantic efforts to save lives after deadly collapse of dock walkway

(AP) – Eyewitness video from the scene of a deadly gangway collapse at a dock in Georgia shows bystanders jumping into action after 20 people plunged into the water off Sapelo Island. Icy White of Atlanta was visiting isolated Sapelo Island with her family yesterday for a fall festival attended by hundreds. White says her family was waiting to board a ferry boat back to the mainland when a gangway snapped with dozes on people on it. Authorities say seven people died on what was supposed to be a day of celebration of the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.

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