The collapse of the ceiling of the conference building at Qassim University

University administration appreciates the interaction of the Emir of Qassim and the concerned authorities

3 higher and engineering committees to study the collapse of the ceiling of the conference building at Qassim University

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Rescue teams ended their search for the missing after the collapse of the roof of the conference center building at Qassim University after recovering 9 bodies and 6 injured, bringing the total number of workers trapped under the concrete rubble to 15.

The university has mobilized all its capabilities and energies during the past days since the tragic incident occurred through the University Council, which directed the formation of an engineering committee, including the Faculty of Engineering in Buraydah and Aniza and the Projects and Maintenance Department, to investigate the main cause of the collapse and report it urgently to the Council. The university administration also directed the university security to keep the collapse site in the conference center until the final investigations are completed about the facts and causes of the accident.

Prof. Dr. Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Omar, Vice President of the University, stressed that the university administration and its employees were pained by the collapse and the deaths and injuries, but this will not, God willing, affect the progress of the university's construction work, noting that the conference building is one of more than one hundred and thirty projects in the university, which is efficiently supervised by the Projects and Maintenance Department led by Engineer Sulaiman bin Saleh Al-Faridi, He praised the interaction of His Highness the Emir of Qassim Region and his directive to establish a five-member committee headed by His Highness consisting of "the Emirate of the Region, the University, the Civil Defense, the Municipality of Qassim, the Control and Investigation Authority" and another independent technical committee to study the causes and reasons.

Dr. Al-Omar stressed that the university and the Projects Department in particular, despite its use of the best international methods of supervision and management of its projects, will be open and will reassess its work mechanisms in light of the results of the studies, praising the interaction of the parties directly concerned with the incident, especially the Civil Defense, Red Crescent, Health Affairs, and all governmental and private sectors.