- The authorities are working at the scene to rescue other people under the rubble | Photo: Rodrigo Mejías
The Minister of Security of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Javier Alonso, confirmed the death of a man after the collapse of the Apart Hotel Dubrovnik, a 10-story building located in the city of Villa Gesell. The incident occurred during the morning of Tuesday, October 29.
According to the newspaper The Nation from Argentina, the victim lived in a building that was located next to the hotel. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office reported that among the rubble there is a person whom rescuers are assisting with oxygen.
Authorities revealed that the case is being investigated as a “culpable havoc.” In addition to three building workers, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the alleged responsibility of two architects who were in charge of the work being carried out at the hotel.
Guilty damage.
It is the crime committed by a person when, due to their carelessness or incompetence, they cause damage, fire, collapse, collapse or flooding of a place and the situation worsens because there is a danger of death or the death of another person.
Fire Department officials arrived at the scene to search for people who were trapped in the rubble.
The local mayor, Gustavo Barrera, confirmed in an interview with The Nation that at least four people who worked as bricklayers managed to leave the place while the collapse occurred, and it is expected that they will be able to testify in court.
“The building had approved plans and had planning permission for an elevator for the front of the property. What fell was the bottom, which is a tower of around 10 floors,” said the municipal official.
Other details
The hotel was 38 years old, according to the Argentine media. According to Barreras, there is no information that people lived in the building, so they estimate that there were only between 6 or 7 people inside the building, while there were 2 to 3 citizens in the building next door.
For his part, the head of the rescue operation, Hugo Piriz, indicated that the Fire Department is looking for between 8 and 9 people, who were on the first three floors of the hotel. According to a former worker at the site, among the missing people are the former owner of the hotel, a nephew of the woman and another former worker. In addition, there were other people working on remodeling the place.
“Approximately 80% of the building collapsed. The rescuers had contact with a woman who says she is with another trapped woman and they are working to rescue them. There is a lot of debris, but we have identified the place,” Piriz said in an interview with The Nation.
He stressed that due to the nature of the work they will need more firefighters during the day for rescue efforts.
Witnesses to the collapse told local media that before the incident occurred they felt “a vibration” and when they looked out the windows of their homes they saw the structure fall.
Support from authorities in other cities
Officials from surrounding cities, such as Madariaga, Pinamar and the Atlantic Coast, also joined the rescue operation. In that sense, the Minister of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires highlighted that there are 180 emergency system specialists working on site.
“They are searching for people at two points. In one we already have contact with someone and we are removing all the rubble to extract it and there is another search in a place where the dogs marked the possibility that there is someone else,” he said in an interview with the station. AM 750.
He clarified that the rescue work is “artisanal work,” since they cannot introduce machinery. To do this, they are using probes with cameras and dogs to try to locate the people who are under the rubble.
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