BELGRADE: A concrete roof above the doorway of a railway station within the northern Serbian metropolis of Novi Unhappy collapsed Friday, killing at the least eight folks. Inside Minister Ivica Dacic mentioned that at the least 4 different folks have been hospitalized with critical accidents, whereas rescuers established contact with two folks nonetheless buried beneath piles of concrete.
Ambulances and different emergency groups have been dispatched to the downtown station and bulldozers have been eradicating the particles on the lookout for survivors. Some 80 rescuers have been on the scene as heavy equipment eliminated massive components of the rubble.
Surveillance digital camera footage confirmed folks transferring out and in of the constructing and sitting on benches on a brilliant, sunny day earlier than the concrete cover all of a sudden collapsed on them. The constructing was lately renovated.Dacic mentioned the rescue operation was “extraordinarily laborious” and that it might final for at the least a number of extra hours.
Prime Minister Milos Vucevic mentioned “it is a black Friday for us, for all of Serbia.”Vucevic mentioned the roof was inbuilt 1964 and an investigation was underway to find out what occurred and who’s answerable for the tragedy. Serbia’s state railway firm mentioned the accident occurred at 11:50 a.m. native time. The corporate mentioned the development that stands above the doorway into the station was not a part of the reconstruction lately carried out on the station constructing.