Rescue efforts continued this morning despite heavy rainfall, as EFE was able to verify on site. According to the first reconstructions of the events, a small initial collapse was followed by another It also left members of the rescue teams trapped. The collapse, which occurred around 11:00 pm local time (03:00 GMT Wednesday), hit a […]
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Building collapses in Brazil, five dead and eight missing
The collapse occurred in the middle of strong rains that for two weeks they put the metropolitan region of Recife on alert and that this Friday caused other landslides, floods, fallen trees and poles and several traffic accidents. The building, in the popular residential complex Beira Marwas closed by court order in 2010 to warn […]
Seven-storey building collapses after fire in Sydney, Australia
Footage captured by the New South Wales State Fire and Rescue Service showed the dramatic fall of one of the building wallsas well as some burned-out vehicles, while the aerial photos released by the local media reported the gigantic fire tongues in a completely destroyed building. A spokesperson for the New South Wales State Fire […]
Collapsed building kills 18 in Syria
A Syrian army source said on condition of anonymity that the rescue teams have completed their tasks and counted a total of 18 bodies from the rubble, while rescuing four injured in the building collapse, in which about 35 people lived there. The official Syrian news agency SANA said the residential building, which housed a […]