US EditionBuilding collapse in central Madrid leaves 3 construction workers injured, 4 more missing
- A partial collapse of a floor in a five-story residential building in central Madrid occurred on October 7, injuring at least one worker and leaving two missing, according to police and fire officials.
- The building collapse resulted in a massive emergency response, involving eleven fire crews from Bomberos de Madrid and SAMUR medical teams.
- Drones were deployed by National Police units alongside local Police for overhead surveillance of the area, which was closed off to facilitate rescue operations.
- Investigations into the cause of the collapse are underway, with officials maintaining the site as an active search zone and urging caution nearby.
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Two dead, two missing after hotel construction site collapses in central Madrid
MADRID, Oct 8 — Spanish emergency services have found two bodies buried in the rubble after a building under construction collapsed in central Madrid yesterday, with two more people still missing and several workers injured, authorities said.What happened? Emergency services said on X that firefighters were working at the scene near the Plaza Mayor, which is popular with tourists, “after the collapse of various floor slabs”.The central governmen…
The four people who died are the four missing: the architect of the project, Laura, and three workers identified as Dambele, Alfa and Jorge, originally from Mali, Guinea and Ecuador, between 30 and 50 years old. Read
In the centre of Madrid, a building collapsed at a construction site in the middle of the day. Several people were buried and are considered missing, including the chief architect of the construction project. Two workers are dead.
2 dead, 2 missing after building collapse in Madrid
At least two people were killed and two others remain missing after a six-story building under renovation collapsed in central Madrid, Spain, according to officials. The collapse occurred shortly after 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday at 4 Calle de las Hileras, near the Ópera metro station, where the structure was being refurbished to become a four-star hotel, according to El Pais. Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida said four workers were initi…
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