An aged man died and a dozen persons are lacking after the collapse of a ten-story constructing that housed a resort on Tuesday within the Argentine resort of Villa Gesell, authorities and native media reported.
“The occasion occurred at roughly 1 within the morning, when the 10-story constructing the place the Dubrovnik Lodge was situated collapsed,” the municipality of Villa Gesell, 350 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, on the Atlantic coast, reported in an announcement. .
Javier Alonso, provincial safety minister, mentioned rescuers recovered the physique of an 89-year-old man and that an injured lady was taken to hospital.
About 300 rescuers, utilizing drones and sniffer canines, looked for survivors within the rubble.
Alonso informed reporters that “between 9 and eleven extra individuals” may have been within the constructing on the time, an estimate additionally given by the town’s mayor, Gustavo Barrera.
The reason for the constructing collapse continues to be unknown.
The municipality claimed that work on the resort was being carried out “clandestinely” and that the authorities had already stopped it in August.
The foreman and three bricklayers have been detained for questioning.