Eight citizens of Tajikistan got multiple injuries as a building that under construction collapsed in South Administrative District of Moscow, Tajik Embassy in Moscow reported. The embassy issued a full list of victims, which is available at the embassy’s website:
1. Abdulloev Romish Bahromovich, 1992
2. Umarov Aslan Farhodovich, 1976
3. Ikromzoda Nuriddin Faiziddin, 1991
4. Mustafoev Ulmas Ahmadovich, 1993
5. Ashurov Fahriddin Umarovich, 1990
6. Halimov Komron, 1994
7. Eshmurodov Parviz Berdymurodovich, 1985
8. Ashurov Asliddin Umarovich, 1995
The building was under construction and at least 16 people worked at the site when on April 17 it collapsed covering an area of 500 sq. meters with rubble.
One person died under the rubble. Eleven people were injured, ten of them were hospitalized, a spokesman for emergency services said.
A police source earlier told that at least nine people had been rescued from the rubble and three of them had been hospitalized.
Most of the victims are construction workers from Central Asia from 17 to 36 years of age, who suffered head and eye injuries of various degrees, the source said, adding that there could be other people buried under the collapsed building.
Moscow authorities are investigating the accident and trying to establish the cause of the collapse. According to official reports, the collapsed structure was an office building on a fenced-out territory of a research facility.
The construction has not been authorized by the city officials, the reports said.
On April 17, 2012, at 1:46a.m. Moscow time Emergency services were reported about the collapse of the building, which is located on the territory of “Grayfer” experimental factory. A total of 260 people were engaged in the debris clearing efforts, 146 of them are specialists of the Emergency Situations Ministry. They used nearly 40 heavy machinery units.
According to earlier police reports, the area of the collapse was 2.5 thousand square metres. The monolithic building of 5-6 storeys in Proyektriruyemy Lane collapsed completely. The thickness of the debris is 10 metres.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted under Article 216, part 2 of the RF Criminal Code (violation of safety rules during construction work) over the collapse of a building in southern Moscow that resulted in death and injuries of people.
