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“The noise woke me up, like the walls were collapsing. I was supposed to go to work soon, and the noise was coming from the apartment upstairs. I managed to grab the documents and fly away. It was terrifying,” he told Blic. Anica Šipek, a resident of the building in Bač, where a large fire broke out this morning.
The fire broke out early this morning, around three thirty, in the Ekonomija 1 building, and as we learned unofficially from the building’s tenants, the fire started from apartment number 3 because there was no electricity in that apartment. It is not yet known exactly what the cause is, although some of the tenants say it could be a candle, since there was no electricity in the building, and others that the fire was intentionally started by a neighbor who previously “threatened to burn them all “.
Andrija Surop, coordinator of Economy 1, says that the neighbor from whose apartment the fire started knocked on her door around three thirty and said the apartment was on fire.
– I said okay, let’s turn it off, but he replied that nothing else can be done and that I must take him from there. We went to the police station and when we returned, a dozen vehicles were already putting out the fire, but there was no help. More than half of the tenants left everything inside, including documents and money, and kept what they were. The scene was terrible – says Surop for “Blic”.
16 adults and 11 children were evacuated from the building, and were accommodated with friends, at the Bac Sports Center and the “Cvrcak” Youth Cultural Center, who were visited by “Blic” reporters.
“He threatened to drop a bomb, set us on fire …”
Ljubica Hayek, one of the evacuated residents who are staying at the Center, claims that SJ started the fire by repeatedly threatening to throw a bomb on them.
– That day I met him around 4:00 in the afternoon, he was drunk and he said that the building would burn down today, so I can’t believe the story that the candle is the cause. We were lying in the house and our son saved us, he broke down the door. We were the last to leave the building. I could not collect the money, only my identity card, I had all my things – says Ljubica Hayek.
A neighbor in the police
As you could hear at the Center, SJ is currently in the police force.
Blic reporters also visited the burning building where forensic teams were still conducting an investigation. As we were told, the investigation is ongoing.
Unofficially, we learn that the culprit is the human factor, although the results of the investigation are still pending.
Otherwise, the building belongs to the company “Agro Bačka” and was declared unconditional in the 1990s.
During the day some companies have already called that want to help the tenants, and as we learned from the municipality, the tenants will stay in temporary accommodation until the building is renovated. As we were told, the renovation is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
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