This is the shocking moment where shelves in a Brazilian supermarket collapsed in a domino effect crushing one worker to death and 8 others injured.
According to Daily Mail, the incident happened around 8:15pm in Mateus Atacarejo Mix Supermarket in São Luís, Brazil. The busiest hours, packed with shoppers when the disaster struck.
In the CCTV footage, the metallic structures to the right of the screen can be seen started to fall causing a domino effect on other huge shelves in front that stacked high with goods.
Shop attendants and customers at the checkout counters heard a thunderous noise. Then everyone panicked and fled as they saw the shelves crashing down.
The footage showed massive piles of food and commercial products mixed with metal shop equipment and rubble. People can be heard screaming and crying. The rescue operation lasted more than 11 hours and involved over 270 firefighters.
The dead victim was identified as 21-year-old Elane de Oliveira Rodrigues. She had been working at the supermarket for three months and was crushed under the falling products in the aisle where she had been stacking shelves.
The victim’s cousin said to local press,”She was so happy with her new job because she had just started working as a shelf stacker for the company three months ago.”
“The last picture she took of herself on her phone, in her blue work t-shirt, was on the shop floor.”