At least two people died and two more were injured when two unlicensed buildings...
A man on a stretcher is carried to a helicopter after a building collapsed in Muzema community, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
“Two people were injured and two were killed, and teams are on the scene looking for survivors who may be buried,” a fire department spokesman said. “As is dominated by militias, the technicians of the municipal inspection office usually require the support of the military police to carry out inspections there,” the mayor’s office said in a statement, adding that it had shuttered several unauthorized constructions nearby last November.
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