Spanish emergency services have found two bodies buried in the rubble after a building under construction collapsed in central Madrid Tuesday, with two more people still missing and several workers injured, authorities said.

– What happened? –

Emergency services said on X that firefighters were working at the scene near the Plaza Mayor, which is popular with tourists, “after the collapse of various floor slabs”.

The central government’s top representative in the Madrid region, Francisco Martin Aguirre, told reporters at the scene that the collapse “caused the different floors to also give way down to the basement of the building”.

“The damage there is very severe, and the possible impact on adjacent buildings is also being analysed,” he said.

Madrid’s municipal police told AFP neighbo

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