Construction Worker Safety

Fire in Brussels high-rise: six construction workers dead

A fire during renovation work in a Brussels high-rise killed six people. Rescue crews found the dead workers in a collapsed elevator.

The German sources FAZ and Deutschlandfunk report consistently on six deaths in a fire in central Brussels that broke out on Tuesday morning during renovation work in a high-rise; the victims were discovered in a collapsed elevator. The FAZ quotes rescue crews describing an exceptionally devastating fire. The Chinese state agency Xinhua, in an earlier report, still cited two dead and four missing in the so-called Oxy building, which shows the ongoing nature of the coverage and the rising death toll over the course of the day. The discrepancy is explained by the timing of the report, not by conflicting assessments. There are no political interpretive differences in this disaster; the camps differ only in how up to date they are.

FAZ · Deutschlandfunk · Xinhua