A building under construction collapsed early Monday on Calçada da Piceleira Street in the Beato district of Lisbon, hitting neighboring buildings, leaving two slightly injured, a source in the PSP and the chamber’s civil protection department told Lusa.
The director of the Municipal Civil Protection Service, Margarida Castro Martins, told Lusa that at 1:05 a.m. the building collapsed on neighboring buildings.
The collapse occurred in a building in which there were four people on the ground floor: two elderly women, a mother and a daughter, the source said.
“The two elderly people were buried and taken by the National Institute of Emergency Medicine (INEM) to the San José hospital. The other two people, a daughter and granddaughter, are fine,” he said.
The building adjacent to the collapse site is uninhabitable and an on-site inspection is scheduled for Monday morning, the source said.
According to Margarida Castro Martins, people affected by the landslide “for now have alternative housing in family houses.”
Four cars were also damaged as a result of the building collapse.
According to the Facebook page of the National Emergency Management and Civil Protection Agency, at 6:45 a.m., 38 first responders were on the scene, supported by 12 vehicles.
The Lisbon Fire Regiment states on its website that it mobilized several resources and operations to the scene, including a film unit and a “drone team” for additional searches, and no new victims were found.