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Aoife Beary, Berkeley balcony collapse survivor, dies aged 27
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Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six people, has died aged 27.
Beary was left with life-altering injuries after the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California collapsed and plunged 40 feet to the ground while she and her friends were celebrating her 21st birthday.
Five of the six killed in the June 2015 incident were Irish students, all aged 21, and one was a 22-year-old Irish-American. Seven other people were injured.
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