2023-07-08 15:02:08
Rescue work continued this Saturday with the support of trained dogs and debris removal teams.
Courtesy | In total, the fatalities are three adult women, four men and four minors.
The death toll following the collapse on Friday of a residential building in the Brazilian city of Paulista rose to eleven this Saturday and another three people remain trapped under the rubble or missing.
The Paulista Fire Department, in the metropolitan region of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, confirmed that during the early hours of Saturday morning more bodies were rescued from the rubble.
In total, the fatalities are three adult women, four men and four minors, including a five-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy.
One of the men, an 18-year-old boy, was pulled out alive from the rubble but died on the way to the hospital.
The rescue work continued this Saturday with the support of trained dogs and teams to remove the rubble from the 16-apartment block that collapsed and the surrounding area, which was partially destroyed.
On Friday, three women were rescued alive and sent with fractures to a municipal hospital, while four other people, who are not part of the list of 19 occupants of the building and lived in an adjoining property, had minor injuries.
The collapse occurred in the midst of heavy rains that for two weeks have put the metropolitan region of Recife on alert and that on Friday caused other landslides, floods, fallen trees and poles, and several traffic accidents.
The building, in the Beira-Mar popular housing residential complex, had been closed by a court order in 2010 warning of the dangers, but two years later it was occupied once more – without authorization – by the owners.
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