Lebanon Building, January 2012 Collapse

On Sunday evening at around 6:00 o’clock, January 15, 2012, a 5-storey residential building in the Fassouh neighborhood (Ashrafiyeh district) in Beirut, Lebanon collapsed killing at least 27 people. The incident has revealed how the nearly 6-decade old building was built. It can be seen from the rubbles that the building has no metal grid. [...]

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