AMMAN — An expert told the Amman
Magistrates Court that soil was not the cause of the collapse of a building in
the capital’s
Jabal Luweibdeh area.
اضافة اعلان
In a four-hour court session on Tuesday, the expert,
who is part of a team designated to determine the cause of the collapse,
testified that the area is stony in nature and therefore the soil was not the
cause of the collapse.
An expert report that was presented to the court
indicated that the cause of the collapse was the maintenance work that took
place on the day of the incident on the lower level of the four-story building
when a wall and a support pillar were demolished.
The expert is the Public Prosecution’s final
witness, bringing the total number of witnesses the court has heard over the
course of 21 sessions, since late September, to 30.
On September 13, a building collapsed claiming the
lives of 14 people and injuring nine others. Three people were arrested in the
case; the Public Prosecutor charged them with 14 counts of involuntary
manslaughter and nine counts of causing harm.
The defendants, who had pleaded “not guilty” to all
charges, were released from custody after the 30-day mandatory period ended.
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