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Building Collapses in Baku’s Narimanov Avenue –SUPPLEMENTED (added news in 3rd and 4th paragraph)

Society Materials 28 August 2007 18:37 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend / A building collapsed in Narimanov Avenue (formerly Sovetski street) in Baku. People are trapped under the collapsed building.

According to confirmed reports, a crane collapsed on a building being constructed near the Azerbaijan Statistics Committee.

A crane collapsed on a 16-storey building being constructed at 25, Mammad Nakhchivani, and completely destroyed it, a Trend correspondent reports from the scene.

The Azerbaijani Vice-Prime Minister, Abid Sharifov, and Emergency Situations Minister, Kamaladdin Heydarov, are at the scene.

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