Safety work after scaffolding collapse in Prilly VD nearing completion
Published: Tuesday, Jul 16th 2024, 15:20
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After the scaffolding collapse in Prilly VD, the safety work will be completed by Tuesday evening. Three workers lost their lives in the accident on the construction site near a shopping center on Friday. According to the latest police reports, five people were seriously injured and six others suffered minor injuries.
There had previously been talk of a total of eight injured. On Monday afternoon, three of them were still in hospital, Jean-Christophe Sauterel, spokesman for the Vaud cantonal police, told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Tuesday.
The "Malley Lumières" shopping center, the underground car park and the stores are to be partially reopened from Wednesday morning, according to the police. At the same time, the previously closed roads will also be reopened and train and bus services will resume.
The accident occurred on Friday morning in the west of Lausanne when a 60-metre-high scaffolding collapsed for unknown reasons. The workers were busy building a 19-storey wooden residential tower called "Phare" ("lighthouse").
The accident caused great shock in the region and beyond. On Monday, around 600 people took part in a memorial service for the victims of the accident.
It initially remained unclear why the scaffolding collapsed. It is still too early to comment on the cause of the accident, the police wrote in the press release. The investigation would continue under the responsibility of the public prosecutor of the special cases department of the public prosecutor's office. He has commissioned an expert to carry out the investigation.
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