Death toll from Nakhchivan school collapse put at four

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Nakhchivan has reached 4 people, Report says citing the press service of the Prosecutor-General's Office.

On March 31, at about 1200, as a result of the collapse of a part of the building of the secondary school No. 3 in Nehram village of Babak District of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, three workers of the Babak district department of the State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture died, and one person was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

Later, as a result of search and rescue operations, the body of another person was recovered from under the rubble of the building.

Dead:

Gadir Suleymanov, 2000

Hasan Aliyev, 1972

Ibrahim Maharramov, 1961

Asaf Rustamov, 1988

Wounded:

Ali Aliyev, 1996.

"Currently, the Babak District Prosecutor's Office is continuing investigation. The public will be provided with additional information," the report adds.