Spanish emergency services have recovered the bodies of four people from beneath the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed in central Madrid while being refurbished into a hotel, local authorities said on Wednesday. Three other construction workers were injured. One construction worker named Mikhail was pumping concrete into the building's lower floors and was outside when the collapse occurred. According to Madrid's online registry of buildings under construction the property was built in 1965. It underwent two technical inspections in 2012 and 2022 and was classified as "unfavourable" due to "the general condition of the facade, exterior, partition walls, roof, roof terraces and plumbing and sewage system".

Source: bd News24 October 08, 2025 10:48 UTC