At least seven people died on Saturday after a boat dock collapsed during an annual celebration on Georgia ‘s Sapelo Island. Captain Chris Hodge with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said 20 people ended up in the water after the ferry dock gangway collapsed on the island in McIntosh County. Hundreds had gathered on the island for Cultural Day, the annual holiday celebrated in the community of Hogg Hummock by descendants of the Gullah-Geechee people, who were enslaved West Africans brought to the region in the 1800s. Eight people, including six who sustained critical injuries, were taken to a hospital after the tragedy Hodge said according to People . Emergency personnel were still searching for missing people on Saturday night.
