A cherry tree about 15 meters tall collapsed at Maizuru Park in Fukuoka’s Chuo Ward on April 8 during the Fukuoka Castle Sakura Festival, city officials said. A park worker heard the tree fall at around 1:50 p.m. and discovered a Somei Yoshino with a trunk circumference of approximately 2.4 meters had toppled. The park was crowded with visitors at the time, but no injuries were reported. Roof tiles on a nearby wall were damaged. The tree is believed to have been planted in the 1950s, and the city suspects internal decay as the cause. Fukuoka City plans to conduct emergency inspections of other cherry trees in the park starting April 9. Source: NHK News / RKB News
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