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The search for the missing young man after the explosion, fire and collapse of a building in Lisbon will continue “until night,” said the Civil Protection councilor, admitting that “it is a setback” to find him alive. “It remains to be seen that a person is missing and, until we find him, we will not leave here,” said the Councilor for Civil Protection of the Lisbon City Council, Carlos Castro, in a balance to journalists, at 8 pm.
12 hours after the explosion, fire and collapse of building No. 41 on Rua de Santa Marta, in the parish of Santo António, in Lisbon, Carlos Castro said that “all interventions require great caution.”
“What we are doing is removing the rubble and now continue doing a much more detailed job of continuing to search, to see if there is someone in the building or not,” said the Civil Protection councilor, adding that the indication is that the young man missing, a 24-year-old man “was inside the building.”
Regarding the removal of 47 people from the neighboring buildings, the mayor reported that, after two inspections carried out this afternoon, “there are 34 who can return,” including those who were staying in a ‘shelter’, and the remaining 13 people already They have found it, by their own means, where they spend the night, pointing out that “the municipal civil protection service continues to accompany these people.”
The alert for the explosion, followed by fire, in a residential building on Santa Marta Street, occurred at 07:48, according to firefighters.
The front of the building collapsed and several projections hit the Hospital de Santa Marta. The explosion also affected vehicles parked on that street in downtown Lisbon, which is blocked from traffic.
SSM (RCS / JNM) // JMR
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