Antwerp: Five construction workers killed in school building site collapse

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All of the victims were construction workers who had been building the new primary school.

Five construction workers have died after a school building site collapse in the Belgian city of Antwerp.

Fire and rescue workers pulled the last two bodies out of the rubble on Saturday, meaning that all missing workers were now accounted for.Nine other people were injured in the collapse, three of whom were still in intensive care on Saturday. They were not in a critical condition, Belgium's fire department tweeted.The fire department was supported by civil defence rescuers, who used sniffer dogs and a drone to assist in the search for survivors.

All of the people who died were sub-contractors for the construction firm Democo, Belga news agency reported.

 

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