Local authorities confirmed that one person has been rescued alive while efforts continue to find others who could not leave the building on their own. According to officials, a three-story building collapsed this afternoon. A private company was already carrying out demolition work due to the structural risks it posed. The government of Mexico City, led by Clara Brugada, is leading a special search and rescue operation after a three-story building located on Calzada de Tlalpan, in the Colonia Transit of the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, collapsed. Pending the studies that will be carried out by the authorities, it is suspected that the work failed and caused the building to collapse, which has left, for now, three missing people and one injured person, who was transferred to Rubén Leñero Hospital. Brugada confirmed that she will inaugurate the first Utopia in Iztacalco at the end of March. The head of government, Clara Brugada, was present at the scene after holding a press conference at the Old City Hall. In the Colonia Transit, where she arrived with part of her government team, she confirmed that they are working in coordination with district elements, the local Secretariat of Security, the Sedena and the Secretariat of the Navy to find the three people alive who are trapped. As she explained, the authorities demanded the owner of the building to advance with the demolition, tasks that had begun in January after the mayor's office approved the necessary documents last November. This toll, explained Urzúa Venegas, comes from the records of the company itself that was carrying out the demolition, which reported 57 people at the scene at the time of the collapse, of which four were missing at the start of the work and, now, three remain to be found alive. "We then have a critical situation," she declared before the press's questions. For her part, the head of Civil Protection of the capital, Myriam Vilma Urzúa Venegas, anticipated that the collapse was due to a "structural problem" in the building, which reported problems "since 1985 and already in 2017 it had significant risks." In this sense, she ruled out that the works being carried out at the San Antonio Abad station of Line 2 of the Metro - which is a few meters from the scene of the disaster - have any relationship with the collapse. In the latest report provided by the authorities from the scene, they confirmed that there are three missing people and one injured person, who was transferred to a nearby hospital with "some thoracic problems." "We were working on the last one and it became a kind of sandwich," the official recounted. "Three slabs fell."
