In a harrowing incident this Sunday afternoon, a building crumbled onto the streets of Mohill, Co Leitrim. The catastrophe unfolded when a parked van on the road precipitated the collapse, trapping a woman within the wreckage for half an hour. Emergency responders successfully extricated her, revealing she suffered broken hands.
The front wall of a shop cascaded onto the thoroughfare, impeding traffic, but, fortunately, the deserted street spared potential casualties. The timing proved fortuitous, as most of Mohill’s 1,100 residents were away, attending the Mohill team’s football semi-finals in Roscommon, organized by the Connaught Club. The void left by the absent pedestrians likely averted a more significant disaster. Authorities are now investigating the structural failure, with the community grappling with the shock of this close call.