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Building collapse in Brazil kills at least 14, traps others

  • At least 14 people, including 6 children, died when an apartment building collapsed in Recife, Brazil after days of heavy rain.
  • The building had been condemned for over 10 years but was occupied by homeless people with nowhere else to go.
  • Rescue workers pulled 2 girls and a woman alive from the rubble, though one man later succumbed to his injuries.
  • City officials had declared the building unsafe to inhabit since 2010 but many had no choice.
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