Ten people have been rescued and 53 confirmed dead in a self-built residential structure collapse in central China s Hunan Province as of Friday, according to local authorities at the press conference.
Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in China's Changsha, prompting over six days of difficult attempts to pull survivors out of the debris. Local officials offered an apology for the accident.
Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said yesterday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction.
The commercial building in Changsha caved in on Friday last week, prompting more than six days of painstaking attempts to pull survivors free from the mass of rubble and twisted metal.
“The search and rescue work at the Changsha building collapse site has been completed,” state broadcaster China Central Television quoted city officials as saying.
“The trapped and incommunicado people from the accident scene have all been found . 10 people were rescued
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