Condemned Building in Sao Paulo Collapses Amid Heavy Rain, Killing 2
Heavy rain and strong winds brought down a condemned 9-story building, and firefighters rescued a man and a boy from the wreckage, officials said.
- Early Saturday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a nine-story building collapsed onto a home during heavy rains, killing two women and prompting Firefighters to search for at least four missing people.
- Construction at the site had been halted since at least 2019 due to irregularities, while heavy rains and strong winds battered the region overnight, exacerbating structural instability.
- About 11 members of a Bolivian family occupied the home in the Penha neighborhood when it collapsed. Officials confirmed a pregnant woman was among the dead, while a man and a child were rescued alive.
- City Comptroller Daniel Falc stated the contractor is under investigation. The city had previously fined the company nearly $24,000 and ordered the building demolished.
- Elsewhere in the city, a house collapse in Sapopemba left 24 people without a home, and Sao Paulo remains under weather alerts following a week of severe storms.
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Eleven family members were inside their home when the neighboring property collapsed because of heavy rains. One of the fatal victims was pregnant.
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2 killed in building collapse in Sao Paulo, Brazil
SAO PAULO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and two others were rescued alive after a 12-story building under construction collapsed early Saturday in Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil, local authorities said.
Building collapse in São Paulo leaves two women dead and four missing persons National Journal/Reproduction In São Paulo, the firefighters look for four people missing in the collapse of a building under construction. The work had structural problems and received orders from the City Hall to be demolished. Two women died. The collapse was just before 2am. The construction, which, according to the town hall, had 11 floors, hit a house where three…
The collapse of a building under construction on a house inhabited by about ten Bolivian citizens left at least two people dead and four missing in the Brazilian city of São Paulo on Saturday, official sources reported. Death victims are two women, one of them pregnant, according to the [...]
Man was located on Saturday night in Penha; tragedy left two wounded and three people still missing
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