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Building façade collapses in Vienna
By David Rogers
An investigation is underway after scaffolding collapsed outside a building early last Sunday morning in Vienna-Wieden.
Police said a taxi drivers car was damaged as the façade of the building at the corner of Heumühlgasse and Rechte Wienzeile and scaffolding attached to it collapsed at about 4am.
The construction company working on the building said it had no idea what had caused the incident but would begin an investigation.
But building police chief Gerhard Cechsaid the façade of the building, dating from the 1850s, had been constructed with two adjoining brick walls which had caused the collapse. He added there had been no record of such a construction technique and negligence had not been a factor.
The building would have become a Wombat's City Hostel. The company had been planning on opening the hostel in June 2010.
Austrian Times
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