Building Evacuated in Sidon after Parts of it Collapse
Civil Defense teams evacuated on Friday a building in the Sidon district in southern Lebanon.
The building, Jana Omari, was evacuated after some parts of it collapsed, reported MTV.
Voice of Lebanon radio also spoke of cracks emerging in the building’s walls.
On January 15, 27 people were killed and 12 wounded when a building collapsed in the Ashrafiyeh district in Beirut.
The collapse had raised fears of similar accidents taking place throughout Lebanon because several buildings were constructed without the necessary safety measures and with the government’s negligence of this issue.
Furthermore, several of them were constructed illegally during the country’s civil war.
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