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Mix Atacarejo clients informed the Twitter the desperation of the people during the fall of five gondolas inside the Grupo Mateus supermarket last night in São Luís.The accident caused the death of an employee and left another eight injured yesterday.
According to musician José Raimundo, a loud noise and a great rush could be heard at the time of the accident. Soon after, the market lights went out because there was a risk of fire. “The moment the shelf fell, I was coming out of the supermarket. Everyone was running and there was a distorted iron noise. Then I saw an injured person on the scene, a man with a bruised face,” he said.
“There was a moment when the general light went out. Customers were the ones who helped the most. We had some heroes and the employees gave blood. They ran with a fire extinguisher because a fire started ”, added the musician.
“Traumatized”
Rose Abreu, who is an accountant, was also there with her daughter. She says she was very afraid of a fire in the supermarket.
“A huge, sequential noise. When we managed to get out of the Mateus parking lot, the lights went out and some people said they were having a ‘short’, for fear of a possible fire. Everything we saw was very shocking. Traumatizing,” he said . Rose.
Reactions to the accident
The deceased employee, Elane Oliveira Rodrigues, 19, worked as a custodian at the supermarket. Her friends reported on social media that she was a very loved person.
Today the Maranhão Public Ministry of Labor (MPT-MA) is going to initiate a civil investigation to investigate the causes of the accident. The Mateus Group reported that it will close all the units in São Luís and that it remains in solidarity with the families of employees and customers.
Amasp (Associação Maranhense de Supermercados), chaired by the businessman Antônio Íris de Oliveira, one of the franchisees of the Camiño flag, of the Mateus Group, expressed himself by means of a note in which he highlighted that “the employees and the management of the company do not they measured efforts to provide support to the authorities at a time of so much pain ”.
