The building, which includes medical clinics and is located in a vital area in central Baghdad, collapsed on Saturday, in an incident that has been repeated repeatedly in Iraq, whose infrastructure has been exhausted by decades of war, and chronic corruption dominates public life in it.
On Tuesday, the Civil Defense Directorate announced the end of the search and rescue work for the auditors detained under the rubble of the National Laboratory building, after “75 hours of continuous work, day and night.”
The civil defense teams were initially able to “rescue 13 auditors, including women and the elderly, in the first minutes of the collapse accident,” according to the statement.
Days later, the rescue teams recovered the bodies of four people, including the building guard, the body of a mother and her child, and the body of an elderly man “75 hours later due to the huge size of the concrete blocks.”
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi commented on the incident, Saturday, saying that it “confirms the validity of anti-corruption efforts and stopping the granting of random licenses,” adding that he directed “an investigation into the incident and the leave granted in previous governments” for this building.
On the other hand, the Investment Authority, which is within its powers to grant licenses to private investment projects, announced the formation of a “competent investigative committee to find out the defect that led to the collapse of the building and determine whether that defect was in the mechanism of granting investment licenses or in the implementation processes or in the follow-up and supervision of the project.”
This is the second incident of its kind in at least a month. Last August, 8 people died in the collapse of a Shiite shrine in Karbala (center).
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