{"id":208782,"date":"2025-10-08T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:49:07","slug":"death-toll-in-madrid-building-collapse-rises-to-4-after-2-more-bodies-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208782\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Madrid building collapse rises to 4 after 2 more bodies recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MADRID &#8212; MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spanish emergency workers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two missing construction workers in the rubble of a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/madrid-building-collapse-spain-8e1614e78f050f34e49d627acf28f683\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">building that collapsed<\/a> in central Madrid a day earlier. The recovery brought the death toll to four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The top floor of a six-story building under renovation collapsed and pancaked the floors below on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Emergency workers searched the site overnight with the help of police sniffer dogs and drones, finding the bodies early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the four dead workers was a woman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another three workers were injured, with one suffering a fractured leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The facade remained standing and apparently stopped most of the debris from reaching the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police are investigating the incident as a workplace accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In Spain, often older buildings are completely renovated inside while the facades are maintained in their original form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID &#8212; MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spanish emergency workers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two missing construction workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119617,966,4,450,119616,793,451,1931,3,452,453,965],"class_list":["post-208782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-119617","tag-article","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-building-collapses","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}