20-hour operation results in rescue of man in Jabal Luweibdeh rubble

AMMAN — Rescue teams have managed to evacuate an individual alive from the collapsed building in Amman’s Jabal Luweibdeh neighbourhood after an arduous 20-hour operation, the Public Security Directorate announced on Wednesday morning.

A PSD statement said that it took rescue teams 20 hours to pull out the eighth injured person, who was identified as a man in his 50s. So far, the five deaths and eight injuries have been reported.  

Four other buildings close to the collapsed residential building have been evacuated. Residents of these buildings were taken to places deemed by officials to be safe, Hussam Najdawi, GAM's Deputy Director for District and Environmental Affairs, said on Wednesday. 

The collapsed building is around 50 years old, he said, highlighting that no reports related to cracks had been made by the owner or the residents of the building, Petra reported.

The Public Safety Committee on Tuesday held a meeting chaired by the Governor, in which decisions made to spare the residents of buildings near the site of the collapse any additional risk, he noted.