Seven people died after a ferry gangway collapsed Saturday in Georgia, according to state officials. Authorities were still working Sunday to determine what caused the collapse. The facts The aluminum gangway should have been able to handle the 40 or so people on it before “a catastrophic failure,

A chunk of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where members of the Gullah Geechee community had gathered to celebrate fall.

The collapse sent at least 20 people plunging into the water, killing seven and leaving several others critically injured.