Nine confirmed dead, one man rescued a day after building collapses in Georgia
- Nine people were killed when a section of the five-storey block of flats collapsed on Friday in the country’s second-largest city
- The owner of a flat and two workers have been detained on suspicion that work in the flat damaged a building wall and caused the collapse
Rescuers combing through the rubble of a block of flats in the Georgian city of Batumi on the Black Sea Coast have pulled out a man still alive more than a full day after it collapsed.
Nine people are known to have died when a section of the five-storey building collapsed on Friday in the country’s second-largest city.
The owner of a ground-floor flat and two workers have been detained on suspicion that work in that flat damaged a building wall and caused the collapse.
The 37-year-old man extracted from the rubble on Saturday was reported to be seriously injured and placed on a respirator in hospital.
Home Affairs Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri did not rule out the possibility that a retaining wall at the house collapsed during renovation work. The owner of the house and two construction workers have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of safety code violations.
