Three bodies were found on Wednesday under rubble in a building whose interior collapsed on Tuesday near the city of Barcelona, in northeastern Spain, firefighters announced.
“We located three dead bodies in the building that collapsed in Badalona.
They are awaiting identification
,” wrote the firefighters in a message published on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
The interior of this five-story residential building collapsed on Tuesday shortly after 10:30 a.m. (09:30 GMT) in this town of more than 200,000 inhabitants located north of Barcelona.
Images posted online by firefighters show a gaping hole going from the top floor to the ground floor of the building, whose facade is however intact.
Three days of mourning
The reasons for this collapse are currently unknown.
These three people had been missing since Tuesday evening.
Nineteen teams of firefighters took turns all night, accompanied by sniffer dogs, to find them by manually clearing 60 cubic meters of rubble.
According to local media, the building, which included 20 apartments, was built in 1959 and recently underwent a security inspection.
The town hall of Badalone indicated on X that it had decreed three days of mourning.