14ymedio, Havana, December 13, 2023 — The four families who still lived in the building that, in the early hours of this Wednesday, partially collapsed on the corner of San Lázaro and Perseverancia, in Central Havana, were evacuated, as confirmed by 14ymedio. This afternoon several demolition teams were working on removing the parts of the facade that were still in danger of falling.
The building, which had already suffered other collapses in the past and was in a terrible state of construction, lost part of the facade this morning during the intense rains that hit the Cuban capital. The collapse was one of the greatest fears of its inhabitants who, repeatedly, had denounced the disastrous situation of the building and demanded an institutional response.
San Lázaro Avenue was still closed to traffic after 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and the police guarded the surrounding roads to prevent the passage of people near the place of the collapse. “We are trying to do it very carefully so as not to damage the adjoining building, and we believe that there won’t be problems,” one of the workers of the demolition brigade told this newspaper.
