RIO DE JANEIRO—An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, killing 14 people, including six children, firefighters reported Saturday.
The building in Recife’s Paulista suburb crumbled in the early hours of Friday, prompting a frantic search for victims.
Searchers combed through the rubble with the help of sniffer dogs and rescued two 15-year-old girls and a 65-year-old woman alive, firefighters said. An 18-year-old man was also removed alive, but later died from his injuries.
“Search operations are now focused on the removal of animals,” the fire department said Saturday….