2 Victims of Collapsed Prague Building Likely Bulgarian

Society | October 4, 2009, Sunday // 12:41
Foreign Ministry: 2 Victims of Collapsed Prague Building Likely Bulgarian: 2 Victims of Collapsed Prague Building Likely Bulgarian Media stands in font of the building in Prague after four workers were trapped when the walls caved in on them. Photo by EPA/BGNES

It is highly possible that two of the people killed by the collapsed building in Prague could be Bulgarians.

The information was reported Sunday in an interview for Darik radio by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Marin Raykov.

Raykov said that several Bulgarian workers visited the Bulgarian Embassy in Prague Saturday to report that they were part of the construction team working on the building and witnessed the collapse in which two Bulgarians from their crew were buried under the falling walls.

The workers have also confirmed the information before the Czech police and they showed the investigators the exact location of the incident.

The Deputy Foreign Minister reiterated, however, that the bodies are yet to be indentified and the death toll remains unknown, adding they were also reports one of the victims was an Ukrainian holding a Bulgarian passport

Earlier Sunday the Russian ITAT-TASS reported all four bodies have been taken out of the ruble and there aren’t any more victims.

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