A collapse Partial in a Havana Center building left three people injured, although without fatal victims, local authorities reported.
The collapse, which occurred on Tuesday at the intersection of Industria and San Rafael streets, involved an attachment of the roof elevator that affected the seventh and eighth floors, according to The government of that Havana municipality.
The fact caused an adult and two minors injuries, which were transferred to the Calixto García and Juan Manuel Márquez hospitals, respectively, to receive medical care.
After an evaluation by specialists, the remaining neighbors were preventively evacuated with the support of specialized forces and construction brigades.
The official information does not require the number of evacuated people or the place to which they would have been transferred. Nor does it clarify whether the measure is transient or definitive.
Instead, the note ensures that neighbors, authorities and specialists showed “cooperation, discipline and disposition to provide help in the incident area”, while doing “work oriented to the recovery of material goods.”
Although the exact causes of the collapse or the structural state of the building, the community and governmental response apparently minimized greater risks were not specified.
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Landslides are frequent in Havana, due to the poor constructive condition of many buildings and also the occurrence of weather events, a combination that rarely ends in the total or partial collapse of precarious buildings and leave victims.
Two months ago, three people died, including a 7 -year -old girl, after the collapse of a building in the municipality of the Old Havanafact that happened shortly after another construction collapsed on October 10 and left at least one deceased.
The three victims of old Havana were trapped inside a collapsed multifamily building, while on October 10 the deceased was also under the rubble of the building that collapsed, according to the information provided by official sources by official sources.
The housing situation is one of the main socioeconomic problems of the island, particularly in Havana, the most populous province in the country, with around 2 million inhabitants.
Official data indicate that the capital has more than 185 properties in poor condition, of which about 84 thousand need partial reparation and about 46 thousand require capital reform.
