Rescue workers at site of incident in city of Novi Sad use diggers to help free two critically injured women from beneath rubble
Emergency personnel and police officers work at the site where a concrete outdoor roof of a train station collapsed in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on November 1st. Photograph: Nenad Mihajlovic/AFP via GettyAt least 11 people were killed and three hospitalised on Friday when a roof collapsed at the entrance to a railway station in theEmergency services used two large diggers into the evening to help free two women who had been trapped under the rubble.
“It is an extremely difficult rescue operation that will last for several more hours. We have around 80 rescuers from several towns working and heavy machinery,” interior minister Ivica Dacic said in a televised statement.Taiwan watches closely as US prepares to choose a new presidentN1 news channel said train departures had been halted from the station, which lies about 70km northwest of the capital, Belgrade.
“This is a black Friday for all of Serbia and Novi Sad,” prime minister Milos Vucevic told reporters. “Regardless of the fact that this building was constructed 1964, we will insist that those responsible for this tragedy are identified.” N1 said the building’s reconstruction had been completed this summer, but that the part of the roof which collapsed had not been part of the reconstruction.
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