Rio Buildings Collapse

Rescue teams frantically dug through rubble on Thursday for at least 22 people missing after three buildings collapsed in the historic heart of Rio, killing at least four people, officials said. The buildings collapsed late on Wednesday near the municipal theater on the city's Cinelandia square, in a historic district bustling by day but nearly de...

Three people were confirmed dead and 16 were still missing early on Thursday after three office buildings, one of them 20 stories high, collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. Officials in Brazil's second largest city said the three bodies were retrieved as rescue teams with search dogs and heavy clearing equipment sifted through t...

Rescue teams frantically dug through rubble on Thursday for at least 22 people missing after three buildings collapsed in the historic heart of Rio, killing at least four people, officials said. The buildings collapsed late on Wednesday near the municipal theater on the city's Cinelandia square, in a historic district bustling by day but nearly de...

Three people were confirmed dead and 16 were still missing early on Thursday after three office buildings, one of them 20 stories high, collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro, authorities said. Officials in Brazil's second largest city said the three bodies were retrieved as rescue teams with search dogs and heavy clearing equipment sifted through t...