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The combined load of snow and ice caused significant damage to many residential and industrial buildings, with several factory and warehouse roofs collapsing. [5] [32] Livestock were killed in multiple rural building collapses throughout the area. [5]
Final Embrace is a photograph showing two victims in the rubble of the April 2013 collapse of the eight storey Rana Plaza building in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh. [1] The photograph, taken by freelance photographer Taslima Akhter, was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo (single) in the "spot news category".
On the 21st, a 79-year-old woman was killed after a snow-packed aluminum patio roof collapsed on her. On the 19th, a 24-year-old man was injured when his leg was trapped under the debris of a porch collapse. The worst building collapse occurred in a warehouse near the old Navy Yard. Damage to the roof and goods was 3.5 million dollars.
The building’s roof buckled in from the weight of the excess snow, killing 98 and injuring 133. The packed house may have had as many as 1,000 people inside at the time.
A woman is being hailed as “life’s miracle” after being rescued from the rubble of a building in China six days after it collapsed. Xiaoyuan, the 21-year-old survivor, was rescued in good ...
As much as 2,300 tons of snow was inside the domed shed at the time of the collapse at about 3:40 p.m., though county department of public works officials were confident the salt supply could ...
[3]: 177 Two-thirds of the building was destroyed by a progressive collapse. Approximately 100 men were working in or around the building. [1] A difficult and dangerous search by rescue workers, involving days of digging, led to the recovery from the building's basement of the bodies of the four workers who died in the collapse.
Brooks was the second person rescued from the building after seven people were initially pulled out after the collapse at 5 p.m. Sunday, authorities said, bringing the number of rescued to nine.