POLAND: Rescue teams find more bodies in rubble of collapsed exhibition hall in Chorzow while first funerals of victims goes ahead

Record ID: 216539

  • Title: POLAND: Rescue teams find more bodies in rubble of collapsed exhibition hall in Chorzow while first funerals of victims goes ahead
  • Date: 1st February 2006
  • Summary: CANDLES AT SITE
  • Embargoed: 16th February 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Poland
  • Country: Poland
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA8P9WJ5JNXLWGLMTHW7TC4HS1S
  • Story Text: Rescue teams on Tuesday (January 31) found more bodies in the rubble of a Polish exhibition hall that collapsed on Saturday (January 28), adding to the toll of more than 65 people known to have died.
    The body of one of the 65 confirmed victims after of Saturday's tragic roof collapse accident in Chorzow was laid to rest at a ceremony on Wednesday (February 01).
    Residents of Tychy, a mining town located in the Silesia area gathered to bid farewell to Jan Sornek, a pigeon breeder who died in the country's worst disaster in almost two decades. After the coffin was lowered into its grave, Sornek's flock of pigeons was released and flew into the air.
    In the country's worst accident since the 1980s, the roof of a hall in the southern city of Chorzow caved in on Saturday during an international show of racing pigeons.
    The authorities blame the weight of the snow for the accident, but the representatives of building co-owner and operator MTK, a unit of London-listed Expomedia, said the roof was cleared regularly.
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