Part of a five-story apartment building collapsed in Georgia’s second largest city, Batumi, and an unknown number of people were injured or trapped.
Появилось видео спасения младенца из-под завалов жилого дома в Батуми.#baku #mediaaz #azerbaijan #batumi
✔️https://t.co/AGmQyZbX83 pic.twitter.com/L826lpd76C— Media.Az (@MediaAz1) October 8, 2021
Ambulance crews and firefighters are on the scene, the building is surrounded by police. General videos show rescuers using heavy equipment to clear debris from the building.
Local media reported that residents, including children, were probably buried under the rubble. The reasons for the collapse of information have not yet been reported.
The #MinistryofInternalAffairs has not been able to specify how many people are in the #rubble, so far #Batumi #buildingcollapse #ნგრევაბათუმშიhttps://t.co/bR6tCA9rYF
— ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge (@Batumelebi_ge) October 8, 2021
Earlier this week, a house in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, collapsed, leaving four families homeless.