Civil Defense and Red Cross teams work tirelessly to find survivors under the anguished eye of relatives of the missing. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
BEIRUT — The Civil Defense recovered another dead body from under the rubble of a Mansourieh building on Saturday morning, raising the number of deaths as a result of the building's collapse to eight, the rescue team announced in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).
The Civil Defense added that search and rescue operations had ended at dawn on Saturday.
On Monday, the Edmond Yazbeck Block E building in Badran neighborhood of Mansourieh in the Metn district collapsed.
In total, four women were rescued alive from the collapsed building, while eight bodies were recovered, including that of a foreign domestic worker.
The General Directorate of Civil Defense, in its Saturday statement, extended its deepest condolences to the families of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery for the injured," according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA).
The Civil Defense also said that the rescue operations lasted "over a period of five days," in which the team used "advanced rescue equipment such as thermal cameras, audio surveillance devices and cameras that can be inserted into narrow areas to reach missing persons without causing any damage to the surrounding."
All buildings on the same block as the collapsed structure were evacuated on Monday.