5 workers dead, 49 still missing after a building under construction collapsed in South Africa
Time:2024-05-08 00:50:36 Source:sportViews(143)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.
Authorities said early Tuesday that the death toll had risen to five, while 49 workers remained buried in the mangled wreckage of the building, which collapsed on Monday afternoon. Authorities said a further 21 workers had been rescued from the rubble and taken to various hospitals, with at least 11 of them suffering severe injuries.
The collapse happened in the city of George, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Cape Town on South Africa’s south coast.
More than 100 emergency personnel and other responders were on the scene, using sniffer dogs to try to locate workers, some of whom were trapped under huge slabs of concrete that fell on them when the five-story building came down.
You may also like
- Balloons fly high over Gansu's Danxia landscape
- EU set to fine Apple $540 mln for unfair play
- China sets up expert advisory committee for lunar samples
- China registers 415 million motor vehicles, 500 million drivers
- Xi Urges Efforts to Promote Garbage Sorting as New Fashion for Low
- Electric tricycles now welcomed in overseas market
- Founder of beverage giant Wahaha passes away at 79
- China mulls sending spacecraft to edge of solar system: scientist
- China's tourism sector embraces continuous recovery