The number of people killed and wounded at the Plasco Trade Center collapse on Thursday has risen to 6 dead and 194 wounded, the director of public relations office of Tehran Emergency Center Hassan Abassi said on Monday.
Abassi told (IRNA) on Sunday evening that some 44 injured have been sent to hospital by Emergency technicians. He added that only three firefighters are still hospitalized.
'Rubble removal operation is underway and the bodies of two firefighters were identified so far,' he said.
Plasco Trade Center, the 17-storey building collapsed in downtown on January 19 while a number of firefighters were inside the building to rescue those trapped in the huge fire.
Plasco was the first high rise building in the Iranian capital and the symbol of Tehran's modernization in 1962.
Source: QNA
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