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| Two killed, 10 injured in Turkish mosque collapse |
| 2004-02-28 |
| Two people were killed and 10 others injured when the dome of a mosque under construction collapsed in the western Turkish city of Usak on Saturday, a local official said. The cause of the collapse was not immediately known, Anatolia news agency quoted the city's deputy governor, Mustafa Guney, as saying. The casualties included the 83-year-old architect of the mosque, he added. In early February, an 11-storey apartment block collapsed in the central Turkish city of Konya, killing 92 people. Authorities blamed the tragedy on shoddy construction. I'm still thinking Wrath of God™... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Hey... construction! Sounds like they ain't too good at that either. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-28 7:40:21 PM |
| #6 Damn Ed, this Hamurabbi would have had a tough time in Jersey. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-28 6:38:08 PM |
| #5 Actually, Ship, there's a section in the Code of Hamurabbi that states - while I can't quote it exactly - that a man who builds a building, and that building is flawed so that it collapses, the man who built it shall be placed in one of his own buildings, and it shall be pulled down around him, killing him. Hamurabbi was pretty strict about that, given all they had to work with at the time was mud bricks, mud and _straw_ bricks, and the occasional stone blocks that had to be imported. Ed. |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2004-2-28 5:06:02 PM |
| #4 LOL. Frank... A dome for a dome? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-28 1:18:57 PM |
| #3 "Scaffolding? We don' need no steenkin' scaffolding! |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-2-28 12:39:58 PM |
| #2 The cause of the collapse was not immediately known Does the Koran mention gravity? |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-2-28 11:18:44 AM |
| #1 "The casualties included the 83-year-old architect of the mosque" sounds like the Code of Hamurabbi is in effect |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-2-28 11:04:36 AM |