The 12 people displaced after Saturday’s fire broke out in a building in Muraria, Lisbon, will be accommodated the following night at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa guesthouse, a source at the facility told Lusa.
According to the same source, the group consists of three single people and three households with three members each.
They will be placed in a boarding house tonight and then reviewed daily, the same source said, noting that Santa Casa was initially keen to identify and support the first needs of these evacuees and will continue to provide housing if there is no alternative.
At the beginning of the day, Santa Casa sent ten people for accommodation, but this number increased in the afternoon.
On Saturday evening, a fire broke out in a building on Rua do Terreirinho, which killed two Indian citizens and injured 14, all of whom have already been discharged from the hospital.
According to the municipal civil protection, which inspected the building this Monday afternoon, the building is “unaffected structurally” but does not have electricity or gas, so “does not meet living conditions” until those infrastructures are restored.
After an inspection and a question about how many people live on the ground floor where the fire broke out, Carlos López Loureiro of Lisbon’s municipal civil protection service clarified that the originally claimed number of around 20 people “has not yet been confirmed.”
“We don’t know if there are people in the end who haven’t shown up yet,” he said.
According to information provided by the authorities over the weekend, the fire in this building, which was mainly inhabited by Indian citizens, affected 25 people, including 24 residents and one non-resident, left 22 people homeless, and also claimed the lives of two Indians. citizens, one of whom is a 14-year-old boy.
Lisbon Civil Protection confirmed over the weekend that two Belgians, two Argentines, two Portuguese, three Bengalis and 15 Indians were living in the building.
The judicial police are investigating the cause of the fire.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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