First victim of the collapse of a building in Encarnación

An eight-story building, which was under construction, collapsed last night in Encarnación, causing the death of two women, whose bodies were rescued this morning from the rubble by a unit of voluntary firefighters. The sinister occurred in the incarnate San Roque neighborhood, very close to the center and the waterfront of the city, and was captured by security cameras that recorded the precise instant the structure collapses and comes down lik…

At least one person lost his life after the collapse, on Wednesday night, of an eight-story building that was under construction in the city of Encarnación, in southern Paraguay, where someone else is presumed to remain trapped, a municipal councillor reported on Thursday. "The reason for the collapse of the building is to be seen, pathologists and experts have to determine the cause," Councilman Andrés Morel told EFE, who indicated that the bui…

Volunteer firefighters found this morning the lifeless body of one of the missing persons after the collapse of a building under construction in the San Roque neighborhood of the city of Encarnación, Itapúa department. They find the first victim of the collapse of a building in Encarnación. Photo: Contributed According to the preliminary report, the body found belongs to the 55-year-old woman, identified as Hermelinda Báez, who was accompanied b…

A municipal councillor from the city of Encarnación said that, according to unconfirmed information he received, the building under construction that collapsed last night in that departmental capital was enabled to have only five floors, but had eight at the time of the collapse.