14 tourists injured in St. Thomas deck collapse

Seaside villa's wooden deck buckles, spilling people onto rocks below

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updated 5:04 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2008

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - Fourteen vacationers were injured, some of them seriously, when the deck of a seaside villa collapsed Thursday on the U.S. Caribbean island of St. Thomas.

Two people suffered serious head injuries when the wooden deck suddenly gave way and spilled them onto rocks a couple of feet (less than a meter) below, according to hospital and police spokespeople.

There was no immediate word on their condition, and Virgin Islands authorities did not identify the names or nationalities of the 14 victims.

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