Residential building collapses in Tbilisi, nobody injured
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A residential building has collapsed in the Chughureti district, Tbilisi earlier today.
The local municipal government says nobody was injured.
Photo: IPN
The four families which have lost their homes will be relocated to alternative homes.
The rent will be covered by the local government.
A residential building under construction will no longer be built on Lortkipanidze Street in the Saburtalo district of the capital city of Tbilisi, where a slope collapsed last night, and a construction company was fined 30,000 GEL (about $9,724/€8,267), announces Deputy Tbilisi Mayor Irakli Bendeliani.
Ninety families, residents of a ten-story building on Lortkipanidze Street in the Saburtalo district of the capital city of Tbilisi, have been evacuated last night after a slope near the house collapsed. Vice Mayor of Tbilisi Irakli Bendeliani said that as a result of the accident, the probable cause of which is construction in the area, no one was injured.
Updated: Four people have died and another is badly injured after a building collapsed in central Tbilisi today.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili who has just arrived in Batumi announces that about 300 rescuers are searching for 10-15 in ruins of residential building that collapsed in Batumi this afternoon.
After about seven hours of rescue operation the first individual has been found in the rubble of a 7-storey residential building collapsed this afternoon in Batumi. As reported about 300 rescuers are searching for 10-15 people after a large section of a seven-storey residential building collapsed in Batumi this afternoon. The acting mayor of Batumi Lela Surmanidze told local media outlet Batumelebi that among the missing people there is one bedridden patient woman, 'who might have been at home'.