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A worker has been rescued from the debris of a collapsed building in the South African city of George after being trapped for nearly five days. Rescuers were able to make contact with the man and give him water after hearing someone inside the rubble.
A yellow excavator pushed away concrete slabs to search though the wreckage of the 21-floor building in Lagos’s wealthy Ikoyi residential and business district, AFP correspondents at the scene said.
Nine more people have been confirmed dead in the collapse of a budget hotel in eastern China, bringing the final toll to 17, as state media on Wednesday announced the end of search and recovery efforts.
The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Florida outside Miami has risen to 46 after 10 more bodies were extracted from the rubble, as the number of people still unaccounted for dropped to 94, officials said Wednesday.
Rescuers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi are searching for dozens of people feared trapped after the collapse of a seven-storey building in heavy rain.
At least 15 people were killed when a five-storey building under construction collapsed in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s biggest city, a rescue official said.
An undisclosed number of people were injured while having meals at a Chicken Inn fast-food outlet in Bulawayo when its ceiling collapsed on them yesterday. A witness, only identified as Ashley said she was inside the building when the accident happened at around 3pm, opposite Tredgold Building. She said she heard a loud bang and […]