Several Workers Hurt as Under-Construction Building Collapses in al-Beddawi
Several workers were injured when an under-construction building collapsed in al-Beddawi area near Tripoli, state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA identified the owner of the building as Mahmoud Seif, adding that the wounded were rushed to hospitals in the area.
On February 12, a building owned by relatives of Deputy Speaker Farid Makari collapsed in the northern region of Anfeh while its residents were still inside it.
A family of three living in the two-storey building was killed in the incident.
A building had collapsed in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh neighborhood in January 2012, killing 27 people and wounding 12.
One person was killed and seven others wounded in another collapse in the town of Tabraja in March 2012.
A number of building collapses were also reported last year.
The Ashrafiyeh incident had raised fears of the occurrence of similar ones given the high number of old buildings in the country and the disregard of safety rules.
Despite the outcry over the incident, no official authority has been established in order to monitor similar cases to prevent the repeat of the disaster.
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