‘Everything Collapsed Like a House of Cards’: Eyewitnesses Report Tragedy in Switzerland

“I’ve been working in construction for about twenty years. I’m never setting foot in that alley again. It’s over.” The post comes from one of the witnesses involved in the crash on Friday when At least four people were killed and eight injured when scaffolding fell from a 19-story building under construction onto the roof of the Malley Lumières shopping mall in Lausanne, Switzerland. Two of the dead were Portuguese.

A witness quoted by the newspaper 24 hours, He says he was at the top of the building, on the part of the scaffolding that did not fall, but his 23-year-old colleague is under the rubble. It says Working conditions have worsened at all construction sites in recent years. “Our safety is no longer as guaranteed today as it was ten years ago,” he added.

Fernand Monod, 77, was leaving a Migros supermarket in Mallet-Lumiere when the accident happened. “Everything collapsed like a house of cards. People were crying,” he told the newspaper. Glare.

To the diary 20 minutesa worker who was on the construction site before the damaged property, said he had gone to a supermarket to “do some shopping” shortly before the disaster. “I arrived at the site and within 30 seconds we heard a loud noise.” The worker thought it was normal construction noise, but soon after he saw smoke and heard screams. The worker complained that his father was trapped under the scaffolding.

ABOUT 20 minutes Two young Portuguese workers were also reported to have been sitting near the crash site, hoping that the death toll would not increase.

A roommate of an employee of the stricken company said that “one of the people who died had worked for the company for 25 years.” “It’s horrible,” he said.