The partial collapse of a building in works in the center of Madrid has aroused the alert this noon. Eleven Fire Deplobes Madrid have moved to Hileras number 4 street after the collapse of some forged in the infrastructure. Another Samur-Civil Protection device has come to the scene to serve those affected.
Emergency sources warn that at the moment there are three injured, but do not rule out that there are “more trapped people” in the infrastructure, on which they now work together with agents of the National and Municipal Police. At the moment the causes that have led to this event are unknown. “The workers miss some colleagues,” the same sources stand out, who are in these moments of whether these workers were inside or outside the property when everything happened.
The notice was received at around 1:00 p.m., and from that moment on, the work has not ceased. Of the three injured, two are mild and one has a serious prognosis, they indicate from the National Police. This police force has sent canine guides to the opera zone to facilitate search work, without ruling out that in some cases the consequences could have been mortal.
It is a six -storey building where search work is still maintained, although the exact number of missing is not clear for now. The agents displaced to the scene have cut traffic on the main street, close to the row, and also in the rest of the surrounding routes.
Of the three wounded workers attended by the Samur-Civil Protection, one has been transferred to the hospital with a fracture in the leg while the rest, for the moment, only have minor bruises. The works continue to ensure the area and complete the search for missing, that one hour after the notice is not known with certainty and still tries to count from emergency services.
The agents of the Municipal Police work with drones in the area to expand the field of vision, determine the damage or find injured and trapped. The infrastructure has almost completely collapsed. According to one of the workers who worked in the building during the collapse in statements to Telemadridat the time of collapse they had to leave the rear area, that of the patio. Ensures that everything was precise with the fall of a beam.