A concrete roof at a Novi Unhappy railway station collapsed, killing 8 and injuring 4. Rescuers proceed to seek for survivors.
A concrete roof above the doorway of a railway station within the northern Serbian town of Novi Unhappy collapsed Friday, killing a minimum of 8 folks.
A minimum of 4 people had been hospitalised with severe accidents, whilst rescuers established touch with two folks nonetheless buried below piles of concrete. Certainly one of them — a 14-year-old woman — was once effectively rescued, government stated.
Ambulances and different emergency groups had been dispatched to the downtown station, and bulldozers had been casting off the particles, searching for survivors. Some 80 rescuers had been on the scene as heavy equipment got rid of huge portions of the rubble.
The construction in Novi Unhappy — the capital of the province of Vojvodina — was once just lately renovated.
High Minister Miloš Vučević stated “it is a black Friday for us, for all of Serbia.”
Vučević stated the roof was once in-built 1964 and an investigation was once below strategy to resolve what came about and who was once answerable for the tragedy.
Serbia’s state railway corporate, Železnice Srbije, stated the twist of fate came about at 11:50 am. The corporate stated the development above the station front was once now not a part of the hot reconstruction of the station construction.
Then again, Serbian mavens identified to home media that the renovation paintings would possibly have led to a structural exchange to the construction, not directly ensuing within the roof’s cave in.