Brazil.- The rescue agencies of the Brazilian city of Paulista (northeast), carry out rescue work to find among the rubble 14 people who disappeared after the collapse this Friday of a residential building.
Colonel Robson Roberto, spokesman for the Paulista Fire Department, in the metropolitan region of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, told reporters that rescue teams are working with a figure of 16 occupants of the building that collapsed.
Two women were rescued alive and sent with fractures to a municipal hospital, while the firefighters began using trained dogs to support the rescue efforts of the other 14 people reported missing.
The collapse occurred in the midst of heavy rains that for two weeks have 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 Janga 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 again – without authorization – by the owners.
In 2018, an inspection by the Fire Department suggested a new vacancy and on Thursday, a day before the tragedy, an insurer for the state bank that financed the apartments issued a similar account about the dangers of the property.
Last April, six people were crushed to death by debris after another residential building collapsed in the neighboring city of Olinda, also in the Recife metropolitan region.
The collapse occurred in the Leme building, a three-story building in the humble neighborhood of Jardim Atlântico, which also had an eviction order for its residents since 2000 due to the risk of collapse.
