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Fifteen People Likely to be Buried Under Collapsed Building in Baku

Other News Materials 31 August 2007 14:45 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. I.Alizadeh / Fifteen people may still been under the collapsed building in one of the central streets of Baku City, Tural Museibov, the head of the Emergency Situation Ministry's press service, said.

A building which was under construction by Muteffekir company collapsed on 28 August at 17:00 hours. The President of the company Muteffekir Ali Muradov, who carried out the construction, including other senior company officials have been arrested.

20 calls from relatives were made to the Emergency Situation Ministry. From the list of missing people, two bodies were discovered at the site. Another man whose name was also on the list has stated he was not at involved in the accident, but two others are still missed. It is therefore presumed that there may be 15 people under the collapsed building, Museibov said.

Museibov has named the following survivors, Avazkhan Akhundov, Abbas Ahmadov, Vugar Afandi, Ibrahim Ibrahimov and Teymur Aliyev.

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