Mexico City, Mexico.- In the city of Camagüey, a man who was walking on the sidewalk died after being hit by a piece of balcony that fell off his head.
The collapse occurred yesterday Saturday on Avenida de los Mártires, in front of the Borla bank, in the Vigía neighborhood of the city of Camagüey. The building that collapsed had been declared in danger of collapse, but the authorities had not acted on it. The area was not even marked as dangerous.
The journalist José Luis Tan Estrada reported what happened in their social networks and shared several images of the place
“How many more victims are needed, the Provincial Government of People’s Power in Camagüey, the Office of the Historian of Camagüey and all the authorities of the province to deal with these possible landslides?” he asked.
Around the property in question are located a picnic area and a point to sell ice cream, where many people gather.
“That is in full view of everyone and nothing has ever been done. For months I have been warning on social networks about the danger of a collapse that currently exists there,” a neighbor told Tan.
That same building, which cost a passerby the life yesterday, was reported as a risk in November.
“A call to the authorities of the city of Camagüey. The danger threatens the hundreds of people who daily pass along the sidewalk of Avenida de los Mártires, exactly on the corner in front of the bank,” Ricardo Gómez Pérez said at the time, but the authorities did nothing.
Due to the construction deficit and the deterioration of buildings in Cuba, the news of landslides that in the best of cases leave several families homeless or randomly end the lives of those who lived or passed through there are regulars.
On January 28, 2020María Karla Fuentes (12 years old), Lisnavy Valdés Rodríguez (12 years old) and Rocío García (11 years old) were buried by rubble while buying ice cream.
A balcony fell on these girls in Águila and Revillagigedo, in Old Havana
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