The death toll in a building collapse in Brazil is rising

The number of dead after the collapse of the residential building on FridayThe Brazilian city of Paulista (northeast) This Saturday, it rose to eleven, and three other people are still trapped under the rubble or missing.

CPaulista Fire Departmentin the metropolitan region of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, confirmed that during the early morning hours on Saturday and Saturday several bodies were rescued from the ruins.

In total, three adult women, four men and four minors, including a five-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, were killed.

One of the men, an 18-year-old man, was pulled alive from the rubble, but died on the way to the hospital.

The rescue operations continued this Saturday with the support of trained dogs and teams to remove the ruins of the collapsed block with 16 apartments and the surrounding area, which was partially destroyed.

On Friday, three women were rescued alive and sent to the municipal hospital with fractures, while four other people, who are not on the list of 19 tenants of the building and lived in the neighboring building, had minor injuries.

The collapse occurred in the midst of heavy rains that have been affecting the region for two weeksmetropolitan area of ​​Recife in a state of alert and which on Friday caused other landslides, floods, fallen trees and poles and several traffic accidents.

The building, in the popular Beira-Mar housing complex, was closed by court order in 2010 warning of the dangers, but two years later it was reoccupied – without permission – by its owners.

In 2018, the inspection supervision of Fire brigade He proposed a new job, and on Thursday, the day before the tragedy, the insurer of the state-owned bank that financed the apartments issued a similar bill about the property’s danger.

Last April, six people died from debris after another apartment 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 modest neighborhood of Jardim Atlântico, which had also had an eviction order for its residents since 2000 due to the risk of collapse.