Hundreds of people demonstrated in cities in southwestern Iran to demand to be accountable to justice those responsible for the collapse earlier this week high-rise buildingfrom which 24 people lost their lives.
On Monday ten-storey Metropol residential buildingwhich was under construction in Abadan, one of the central cities of Khuzestan province with 230,000 inhabitants, partially collapsed in the heart of a busy street.
It’s about one of the deadliest disasters this kind of thing that has happened in Iran for years.
Videos and photos posted on the Fars agency website show hundreds of residents have taken to the streets of Abadan last Thursday night to mourn the victims, beating traditional drums. Some shouted “death to incompetent employees”.
Corresponding scenes unfolded in Horamsaranother town in the same province, with residents seeking a “serious” trial for those responsible for the tragedy, according to Fars.
Today its first vice president of the Iranian government of Mohammad Mohber went to Abadan, broadcast the Isna agency.
A video posted today on the Tasnim agency’s website showed rescue workers carrying a stretcher on which a corpse was placed in a black bag.
“According to the latest information, the death toll from the incident in Metropol is 24”, Isna pointed out, citing the governor of the city, Ehsan Abbaspour.
Earlier, authorities said there were 37 injured, but most had been discharged from hospital. However did not specify how many may remain trapped in the rubble.
THE Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expressed condolences to the people of Abadan, according to a letter posted on its website yesterday, calling for the perpetrators of the tragedy to be prosecuted and punished.
According to the city judicial authorities, At least 10 people, including the mayor of Abadan and two former mayors, have been arrested with the accusation that they are “responsible” for the accident.
In 2017, 22 people, including 16 firefighters, were killed in the collapse of the 15-storey Plasco Building in the heart of Tehran, which was built in the 1960s.
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