No Casualties as Bourj Hammoud Building Collapses while Being Torn down

No one was hurt on Friday when a building collapsed in the Beirut neighborhood of Bourj Hammoud.

LBC television reported that the building was being prepared to be torn down in order for another to be constructed in its place.

It added that its owner was planning on demolishing it without a license or consulting an engineer.

Voice of Lebanon radio had reported earlier on Friday that the wall of a building had collapsed as a nearby three-storey building was being torn down.

On March 23, the front of a vacant building collapsed in Bourj Hammoud.

No casualties were reported and damage was limited to nearby power poles and parked cars.

The two incidents are the latest of a series of building collapses that have been taking place in Lebanon, the latest of which was the crumbling of a wall in a house in the town of al-Hallousiyeh in the Tyre district in the South in March.

Prior to that, two buildings in Tabarja, north of Beirut, collapsed on separate occasions.

Also in March, three students were killed and seven others injured when part of a cliff collapsed at the Bhanine school in the northern Minieh-Dinniyeh district.

The series of collapsed buildings began in January in Beirut’s Ashrafiyeh neighborhood when a collapse left 27 people dead.