(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 01 – The Iranian authorities blocked the Internet this morning while protesters again protested the collapse of a building in the south-west of the country last week and in which 36 people died.
This was reported by various international media.
Videos of the protests have circulated online with some showing officers beating protesters and firing tear gas at them in Abadan, some 660 kilometers southwest of the capital Tehran. But details of any arrests are unclear.
Protesters were protesting the collapse of the unfinished 10-story building in Abadan on 23 May.
Yesterday, rescuers extracted three more bodies from the rubble bringing the death toll to 36. Five of the victims were children, the official Irna news agency reported. Thirty-seven people were injured in the collapse, with two still in hospital.
The incident, one of the worst disasters in Iran in recent years, heightened anger at rising prices and economic deprivation that sparked protests that have now lasted for three weeks and show no signs of abating, observers say. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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