PM Garibashvili: 300 rescuers search for 10-15 in ruins of residential building collapse in Batumi
"We should wait for the results of the investigation and, first of all, we should pray for these people to survive", Garibashvili said. Screenshot from live video.
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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.
A very tragic story happened. Our rescuers do their best to clean up the area in time. According to the available information, there are about 10-15 people trapped and we are doing everything to resolve the situation in time. About 300 rescuers are working, they have all the equipment and intensive work is underway", Garibashvili said.
He added that 'we should wait for the results of the investigation and, first of all, we should pray for these people to survive'.
There is also Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri on site who said that about five floors of the building have collapsed.
As reported the rescuers have already saved two children from the ruins, including one newborn. One child injured in the collapse of a building is currently being examined at the Iashvili Central Mothers and Children Hospital in Batumi.
Director of the clinic Tamar Bakhtadze said that in addition to superficial injuries, the child also has a lower limb injury.
A residential building has collapsed in the Chughureti district, Tbilisi earlier today. The local municipal government says nobody was injured. 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.
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'.
A man has been rescued from the ruins of a multi-block residential building which has collapsed today around 12 p.m. in the Black Sea coastal city of Batumi. The man was taken to the hospital. Earlier a woman was also rescued, whose two children arestill missing.