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Agence France-Presse

The death toll from the collapse of a building under construction in central Madrid rose to four on Wednesday after emergency services recovered the bodies of the last two people reported missing.
Two bodies were found late on Tuesday at the site near Plaza Mayor, a popular tourist area, hours after the building partially collapsed.
Firefighters recovered the other two in the early hours of Wednesday, Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida said on social media, “after the collapse of various floor slabs”.
“All our love and support go to their families, friends, and colleagues in this very difficult time,” he added.
Emergency services said the victims included three men working at the site and a woman supervising the project. Spanish media reported the workers were from Mali, Guinea and Ecuador.
Three other people sustained minor injuries.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation. The building, a former office block, was being converted into a hotel. Town hall records show a permit was granted for the project in February.
The central government’s top representative in the Madrid region, Francisco Martin Aguirre, told reporters at the scene that the collapse “caused the different floors to also give way down to the basement of the building”.
“The damage there is very severe, and the possible impact on adjacent buildings is also being analysed,” he said.

Madrid’s municipal police said neighbouring buildings were being evacuated.
The total number of injuries was unclear.
Martin Aguirre said the toll “at the moment is estimated to be around 10, mostly minor, injuries”.
Police working with drones had cordoned off the street, which was full of ambulances and police cars, as dozens of onlookers gathered outside.
Milagros Garcia Benito, who works at a hairdresser in front of the building, said there was “an enormous explosion, it blew out the glass and everything”.
“Lots of white dust, you couldn’t see anything. Firefighters and police started arriving quickly,” she said.
Inmaculada Sanz, deputy mayor and a top security official at Madrid town hall, told reporters that “the amount of rubble is very significant” and that the emergency response “will last quite a long time, not only hours, probably a few days”.
According to the land registry, the building was six storeys high.


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Top floor of a building being converted into a hotel collapses, causing multiple floor slabs to pancake down to the basement


Top floor of a building being converted into a hotel collapses, causing multiple floor slabs to pancake down to the basement.


Death toll rises to 4 after Madrid building collapses

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