Iran’s General Prosecutor says the negligence of the builders of Metropol Building in the country’s south is mainly to blame for the deadly collapse of the edifice.
Mohamamd Jafar Montazeri said the Judiciary has presented its report on the Metropol Building collapse to President Ebrahim Raisi.
Montazeri said the major portion of the report shows that those who built the edifice are responsible for the incident because of their negligence.
He added that Metropol, in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan, tumbled down because the builders did not fulfill their duties to the full before and during its construction.
The building collapse killed 43 people.
Right after the incident, officials blamed it on the owner of Metropol, saying the collapse happened due to poor construction standards.
Authorities later found that Metropol’s owner, Hossein Abdolbaghi, got killed after he was buried under rubble. Abdolbaghi’s body was found and a DNA test confirmed the identity of his corpse. His body has been buried in his hometown village in Iran’s Isfahan Province.
The spokesperson for Tehran City Council, dismissed reports that Bistoon Street in the Iranian capital…
Moscow hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopts an impartial approach to the…
The Palestinian movement Hamas says that Israel has created new obstacles to a ceasefire deal…
In the early hours of Friday, December 26, 2003, the ancient city of the southeastern…
Pope Francis has urged the world “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions”…
The Pakistani military has conducted air attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan, targeting hideouts of the Pakistan…