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Four people have died one after the other Building partially collapsed under renovation In madrid On Tuesday.
emergency services Bodies recovered from under the debris of six-storey building building But Rows Street Wednesday morning, local officials said.
The victims have been identified as three men aged between 30 and 50 from Ecuador, Mali and Guinea-Conakry, who were employed as construction workers at the site, as well as a 30-year-old woman. architects working on projects,
Their remains were found this morning, about 15 hours after the collapse building’Internal structure of. Three other construction workers were injured when “multiple floors” collapsed, according to fire fighting,
A construction worker named Mikhail was pumping concrete buildingHe was on the ground floor and outside when it collapsed. he said he saw a big cloud of dust And immediately ran away quickly. He said it was “our first day” working on the site.
Others said they were lucky to escape when “the whole building collapsed” after going out for lunch. “We saw the sun disappear,” one said, according to a Spanish newspaper report.
The exact cause has not yet been determined. The mayor said the sixth floor collapsed, trapping people below it.
Miguel Segui, Chief madrid The City Council Fire Department told Spanish media that a slab had fallen on the roof of the upper floor.
“There’s still a lot of work to be done,” he said. “It was a combination of factors.”
a witness told abc He saw the building collapse like “a tremendous tornado”.
He said he was about to enter a hair salon when “I started seeing a whole cloud of dust falling down the street”. Many windows were broken, he said.
An employee at a nearby bakery told Spanish radio and broadcaster RTVE that “it sounded like a bomb”.
Emergency crews arrived Tuesday initially to treat three injured people, who fled on their own.
It took them another 14 hours to recover the body from the spot. Pawn Report: “The alarm was raised at 1.00 p.m., and the last two bodies were recovered at about 3.00 p.m.”
One of the injured workers was being treated in hospital for a leg fracture. emergency services spokeswoman Beatriz Martin said.
In a video posted on emergency servicesThe building’s facade was covered with a giant green tarpaulin commonly used by construction crews when renovating old buildings.
The facade of the building was intact and debris had not fallen on the road outside.
Madrid Mayor José-Luis Martínez-Almeida wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that eleven teams were working in the area along with police.
According to local media reports, police were accompanied by psychologists to help the relatives.
Authorities initially evacuated residents to their homes due to fears of further landslides.
Accordingly, a forensic investigation tent was set up, in which around 30 employees were waiting for news of their colleagues. World,
Early Wednesday, Martínez-Almeida confirmed fire fighting The bodies of two people who were considered missing after the collapse have been recovered.
Late Tuesday, they confirmed the death of one of the four people trapped in the building and “the location of one of the missing persons.” rescue workers recovered Two bodies just before midnight.
Madrid’s judicial police will lead the investigation into the accident, emergency services wrote on X.
Ms Martin said it was too early to talk about the cause.
A resident, giving his name only as Cayetana, said World that “the building was completely neglected since my arrival” 10 years ago.
He said, “It was to be expected. Given the condition it was in, something bad was bound to happen sooner or later and that inevitable day has come.”
The building, built in 1965, had fallen into disrepair and was acquired by Saudi fund RSR Singular Assets Europe Sosimi in 2022 for €24.5m.
It was planned to be developed into a four-star hotel with 122 rooms and six floors over a surface area of approximately 6,500 square meters in two years.
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