114 Tripoli buildings to be evacuated, families to receive allowance
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has chaired a meeting with national and local officials, during which the decision was made to evacuate 114 buildings, in Tripoli, deemed to be at risk of collapse in stages over the course of a month.
The country's Higher Relief Committee will then work to reinforce the buildings that can be saved, while those that are seriously structurally unsound will be demolished, Salam told journalists after the meeting on Monday. He said a housing allowance would be provided to the evacuated families for one year.
The meeting took place after 15 people were killed in a building collapse in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon. A further eight people were injured.
The six-story apartment building in the impoverished Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood collapsed Sunday afternoon.
Building collapses are not uncommon in Tripoli due to poor building standards, but the incident on Sunday sparked particular outrage due to the high death toll.
Source: Associated Press
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