The death toll from the collapsed building in the Jordanian capital, Amman, rose yesterday, Tuesday, to nine people, today, Wednesday.
A statement issued by the Public Security Directorate said that “rescue teams managed a short time ago to evacuate another body from under the rubble, bringing the death toll of what was recovered to nine.”
The statement added that “the rescue teams are still working in full force to reach the rest of the trapped.”
A previous report from the same source indicated that eight bodies had been recovered from the ruins of the building located in Jabal Al-Weibdeh, one of the oldest neighborhoods of the Jordanian capital.
The rescue team had earlier succeeded in pulling out a girl and a man alive, about 24 hours after the building collapsed.
The girl is four months old and her name is Malak, while the man is 45 years old.
On Wednesday evening, upon his return from France, Jordan’s King Abdullah II went to the National Center for Security and Crisis Management to follow up on rescue operations, according to the official “Kingdom” channel.
The Director of Civil Defense, Brigadier General Hatem Jaber, said, in statements to reporters at the scene, that “the search and rescue operations, in which more than 350 civil defense and search and rescue personnel participated, will continue without interruption and until all the besieged are removed, whom we will continue to consider alive.”
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