{"id":10235,"date":"2026-05-20T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10235"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:02:10","slug":"two-romanian-women-missing-after-building-collapse-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10235","title":{"rendered":"Two Romanian women missing after building collapse in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Romanian women are missing after a building collapsed following an explosion in the German city of G\u00f6rlitz near the Polish border, Romania\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mae.ro\/node\/68508\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> on Tuesday, May 19. German rescue teams are continuing search operations for people believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Romanian Foreign Ministry, German authorities informed Bucharest that two Romanian citizens were reported missing after the explosion, which took place overnight on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The embassy in Berlin and consular teams are in contact with the relatives of the two Romanian citizens, while German emergency teams continue what Romanian officials described as a \u201ccomplex and difficult\u201d rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign minister Oana \u021aoiu said she spoke with G\u00f6rlitz mayor Octavian Ursu, who assured her that all efforts were being made to rescue any victims trapped beneath the debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with the authorities in the town of G\u00f6rlitz, and at this moment German authorities are carrying out a difficult operation to locate possible victims. So far, we have confirmation that two Romanian citizens, two women, were inside the building at the time of the collapse, and authorities have teams on site. Authorities currently estimate that three people may be trapped under the rubble,\u201d minister \u021aoiu said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>She added that a young Romanian man who had been temporarily outside the building during the incident escaped unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities have deployed all necessary resources for the rescue effort, including specially trained search dogs, according to the Romanian minister.<\/p>\n\n<p>The police, as quoted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/east-germany-goerlitz-building-collapse-missing-8c7767f421e795875c6e649fc1ab3dbd\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, said a gas explosion may have caused the collapse of the building on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s Foreign Ministry said it would provide additional information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">B<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">erlinfoto\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Romanian women are missing after a building collapsed following an explosion in the German city of G\u00f6rlitz near the Polish border, Romania\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Tuesday, May 19. German rescue teams are continuing search operations for people believed to be trapped under the rubble. According to the Romanian Foreign Ministry, German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}