MEXICO CITY (CBS) – A section of a luxury shopping center in the south of Mexico City collapsed on Thursday, prompting rapid intervention by emergency services and firefighters, with no deaths or injuries recorded so far. “About five minutes later was when the collapse happened.”

Videos posted on social media showed the multi-story section collapse in a cloud of dust and twisted metal. Some of it fell into lanes of a major freeway, which had been closed shortly before the collapse. Television images showed part of the collapsed structure of the Artz Pedregal, which was inaugurated in March of this year in the heart of one of the most affluent neighborhoods of the city. The risk posed by substandard building has been a longstanding issue in Mexico City, where many poorly built or designed buildings collapsed in the city’s 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, both of which occurred on 19 September.
The Artz Pedregal shopping centre in Mexico City collapses.