Three Arrested Over Polish Roof Collapse
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter Warsaw, Poland (AHN) - Polish police arrested three men who designed an exhibition hall that collapsed in January, and resulted in the deaths of 65 people. Two of those arrested have been charged with intentionally allowing an accident that endangered lives. The third has been charged with a lesser crime. Roughly 500 people were inside the Katowice trade hall for a pigeon exhibition when the roof collapsed under heavy snow. The accident, which is Poland's worst building disaster, also injured 140 people. Tomasz Tadla, a spokesman for Katowice prosecutors, told the BBC, "The designers disregarded building regulations. The project and its realization were faulty." The arrests come after a report issued in May, which cited "design and construction errors" as possible causes for the building collapse. Three managers of the company that ran the hall have been in police custody since February on suspicion of negligence.
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