At least five people are known to have been killed at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after the roof of a terminal building collapsed.
The roof of the cylindrical Terminal 2E, which was opened less than a year ago, caved in early on Sunday morning. The Daily Mail reports that flights from New York and Johannesburg had recently arrived at the terminal, but that the death toll could have been much higher if the building had collapsed later in the day.
The newspaper quotes unions as saying that the collapse was the result of a “rushed construction”, and “an accident waiting to happen”.
A spokesman for the CGT union reportedly said: “We warned in June last year that the ADP (airport authority) was wrong to ruch the building work. This disaster has shown that the construction may well have been faulty.”
The victims have not yet been identified but are believed to include an Asian man, a Czech woman, a Chinese woman and a woman from the Ivory coast.
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
