Newly released surveillance footage capturing the moment a 10-story hotel collapsed in Argentina shows a woman narrowly escaping as the skyscraper collapsed.
Video from the parking lot of a hotel adjacent to the Dubrovnik hotel, whose collapse on October 29 left three people dead and five still missing, showed the woman walking in the parking lot seconds before dust and debris began to fill the space. .
After she seemed to realize something was wrong, the woman was seen leaving the parking lot before a cloud of dust and debris filled the space.
Footage first released on Monday showed a woman walking in the parking lot of a hotel next to the Dubrovnik, which collapsed in Villa Gesell, Argentina, on October 29. Three people died and five are still missing.
A drone view shows rescuers searching for victims in the rubble of the Dubrovnik hotel after its collapse on October 29.
Three people died in the collapse: its former owner, Maria Stefanic; his nephew, Nahuel Stefanic; and her husband, Federico Ciccini.
The images were published on Monday, a day after inclement weather forced authorities in the province of Buenos Aires to postpone the search for five missing people.
They were identified as Dana Desimone, 28 years old; Juan Matu, 38; Fabián Gutiérrez, 50; Mariano Troiano, 47; and Matías Chapsman, 27 years old.
At least 300 members of a search and rescue team and the local fire department have been combing through the rubble with the help of a crane that can remove up to four tons of debris at a time.
Smoke filled the parking lot of the Medama hotel moments after the Dubrovnik hotel collapsed on October 29
Aerial footage of Dubrovnik hotel taken on October 29 after the 10-story building collapsed
Illegal renovations were reportedly taking place in Dubrovnik at the time of the collapse.
Jorge Bonavita, architect in charge of the project, and Rubén Tachiquiri, the contractor, were arrested on Saturday by the Buenos Aires Police.
According to officials, renovations continued after work was completed in August. Investigators discovered secret renovations were underway on the hotel’s seventh and eighth floors, as well as the elevator.
The prosecutor leading the investigation prohibited two other architects and six members of the board of directors of the company that owns the hotel from traveling outside Argentina.