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This is yet another roof collapse in Europe! This season structures from IceSkating Rink to Mines to Markets seem to be caving in!
The concave, snow-covered roof of a large Moscow market collapsed early Thursday, killing at least 47 people and forcing rescuers to clear away concrete slabs and metal beams to reach possible survivors trapped in the wreckage, officials said.
A fire broke out on the edge of the collapse site mid-afternoon, sending acrid smoke billowing into the air. Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said it erupted when a spark from an electric saw used to cut through metal ignited some paint, and that it posed no threat to anyone trapped in the wreckage.
“There is nobody there,” he said of the edge of the disaster site.
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