A mother and her two children, a boy and a girl, are the three injured that a new landslide has left in Old Havana this Monday. The three were trapped under the roof that fell on them, first thing in the morning, in the lot where they lived, on Sol street, between Egido and Villegas.
The crowd gathered before the police tapes that blocked the way applauded, shortly after 9:30 in the morning, when the emergency services rescued the four-year-old girl alive. The woman and the child, five, were rescued earlier and taken to hospital.
“Since yesterday I have been saying: that roof is going to fall, that roof is going to fall,” a neighbor of the place tells this newspaper, who assures that he warned the residents of the building, but they did nothing. At the same time, he explains, recreating the situation: “That roof has only three little wooden beams, and skipped, one here, another here and another here.”
One more corroborates that the place had been “bad” for a long time, that she “resolved a place” to move, but the rest had no alternative
Another neighbor replies that they have been complaining for a long time about the precarious situation of the building, but that they have been ignored. “Today everyone who complains is here, it is now when they come, not before,” she laments.
One more corroborates that the place had been “bad” for a long time, that she “resolved a place” to move, but the rest had no alternative.
Very close to where this collapse occurred, on Luz Street, between Curazao and Egido, a ladder collapsed last June and injured an elderly man who was trapped until firefighters arrived.
At the beginning of that same month, due to the intense rains that affected the west of the country, more than 60 landslides were reported in Havana, one of which caused the death of two people.
Both Old Havana and Central Havana suffer from constant falls of buildings or parts of them, but the authorities, who dedicate large investments to the construction of luxury hotelsdo nothing to remedy the housing problem in this area, whose precarious conditions threaten hundreds of families.
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