LEBANON: Several residents are trapped after a residential building collapsed in Beirut

Record ID: 216315

  • Title: LEBANON: Several residents are trapped after a residential building collapsed in Beirut
  • Date: 16th January 2012
  • Summary: BEIRUT, LEBANON (JANUARY 15, 2012) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) TOP VIEW OF SCENE AT COLLAPSED BUILDING TOP VIEW OF RESCUE TEAMS SEARCHING RUBBLE TOP VIEW OF FIRE ENGINE PEOPLE WALKING IN BUSY STREET AT SCENE VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS ON PILE OF RUBBLE AMBULANCES AT THE SCENE WOUNDED WOMAN ON STRETCHER BEING CARRIED FROM THE RUBBLE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LEBANESE WOMAN
  • Embargoed: 31st January 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Disasters
  • Reuters ID: LVAAKPBZP5UGD9VHM70EKBNJ83PU
  • Story Text: A residential building collapsed in Beirut on Sunday (January 15, 2012), killing at least two people and wounding ten others.
    Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defence forces rushed to the scene trying to evacuate the residents still believed trapped under the rubble.
    At least 40 people are still believed to be trapped underneath the building.
    Local woman Nada lives near the collapsed building and witnessed what happened.
    "We suddenly heard the noise of shaking and then screams of women and children, then we felt strong shaking, we didn't know if it was an earthquake or what. Then we saw a lot of dust, I felt that it was the scene of the World Trade Center."
    The five-story building in the Achrafieh district of Beirut was erected in the 1960s.
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