Two citizens of Uzbekistan injured in South Korea balcony collapse

An internal balcony at a nightclub in South Korea collapsed on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 16 including 2 exchange students from Uzbekistan as well as American athletes at the world swimming championships, ABC News reported.

Hundreds were at the nightclub in the southern South Korean city of Gwangju when the collapse occurred next to the athletes' village.

Two South Korean men died while 16 others were injured, police said. According to a police account, the injured include 10 foreigners, eight of them athletes who were in Gwangju to participate in the swimming championships.

Police said they detained one of the nightclub's co-owners and summoned three other club officials to investigate whether the collapsed balcony was an unauthorized structure.