Three people were still missing Tuesday morning after a residential building collapsed in the town of Görlitz in the eastern German state of Saxony. the local police said. According to local authorities, the cause of Monday’s incident was probably a gas explosion, TASR informs, according to a report by the DPA agency.
- In Görlitz, a multi-storey residential building collapsed near the railway station.
- Three people remain missing and may have been in the building during the collapse.
- Two people who were initially missing were found alive and unharmed.
- The probable cause of the collapse is a gas explosion with continued leakage.
- The building was evacuated and closed, the police, firefighters and civil protection intervened.
Two of the five people who were initially reported missing have been located shortly after midnight Tuesday and no injuries were reported, a local police spokeswoman said. Rescuers continued to search for possible victims trapped under the debris throughout the night.
A multi-storey building collapsed on Monday evening near the railway station in Görlitz. The police said that she has still not been able to contact three people and they may have been inside the building at the time of the collapse.
Authorities later announced that a gas explosion may have occurred in the apartment building, although the exact cause of its collapse has not yet been officially confirmed. Rescuers had to proceed with caution as gas continued to leak from the site. The leak site was located under the debris and it could not be repaired for technical reasons, the spokeswoman added. Measuring devices are used for continuous monitoring of the gas concentration in the air, no According to the police, another explosion is unlikely.
The vicinity of the collapsed building was evacuated and closed after the incident, writes DPA. Police officers, firefighters and civil protection teams intervened on the spot. According to the police, there were rental and vacation apartments in the building. According to the authorities, the property belonged to the housing company KommWohnen, which belongs to the city of Görlitz.
