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Sad certaintyThird body found after house collapse in Görlitz
Emergency services are searching for more missing people in the mountain of rubble of a collapsed house in Görlitz.
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Rescue workers recover more dead people.
The emergency services, some with their bare hands, are digging through the mountain of rubble after a house collapsed in Görlitz, Saxony. Now they make a third sad discovery. This means there is no longer any hope for a miracle.
Lost race against time
After the dramatic house collapse in the Saxon town of Görlitz, a third body was found in the rubble. It is a man, the police said. A missing 26-year-old Romanian woman had previously been recovered, a police spokesman said. The body was recovered from the front part of the collapsed house.
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During the night, the emergency services had already found the body of a missing 25-year-old Romanian tourist.
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The house, which according to the police contained rental and holiday apartments, collapsed on Monday evening for reasons that are still unclear. Several wheel loaders, excavators and cranes were also used to recover debris. The strain on the emergency services themselves was high. There was a lot of dust and people had to work with protective masks the whole time, said THW operations management spokesman Daniel Hofmann.
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Cause still unclear
The exact cause of the accident in the city in eastern Saxony is still not clear. “But it looks like a gas explosion,” said Görlitz Mayor Octavian Ursu (CDU). According to police, a gas leak was found a few hours after the Wilhelminian style house collapsed.
Easternmost city in Germany
Görlitz is the easternmost city in Germany. It is located in Upper Lusatia in Saxony directly on the Neisse and has 57,000 inhabitants. Since 1998, Görlitz, together with its eastern Polish neighboring town of Zgorzelec, has formed a cross-border European city. Because of the historic, undestroyed old town backdrop, the city is also a sought-after filming location for international film productions.
The collapsed Wilhelminian style house was on James-von-Moltke-Straße near the Görlitz train station. The area around the house was largely evacuated and cordoned off after the collapse.
Source used: dpa
