The eight-storey building (and not six as previously mistakenly announced by the authorities) collapsed Friday afternoon in the city of Changshaas this daily video relates South China Morning Post :
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Several people have been rescued after a building collapsed in Changsha, China. But the number of casualties or residents trapped remains unclear https://t.co/5SRwjUo578 pic.twitter.com/SDm6RmMuAf
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) April 30, 2022
The building housed a hotel, apartments and a cinema. At least 23 people were trapped by late Saturday, while 39 others remained unreachable, the mayor of Changsha told reporters. No deaths have been announced so far.
Five people saved overnight
City authorities said five people were rescued overnight from the collapsed structure.
Rescuers were trying to make their way through the rubble. They used circular saws to extricate several survivors.
State media showed firefighters cutting through a tangle of metal and concrete, while rescuers shouted in an attempt to communicate with survivors.
Poor compliance with safety rules
This type of disaster occurs quite frequently in Chinadue to poor compliance with safety rules and a certain laxity of the services supposed to ensure their proper application.
In January, an explosion triggered by a suspected gas leak caused a building to collapse in the city of Chongqing, some 1,700 kilometers west of Shanghai, killing more than a dozen people.
The explosion of a gas pipe in a residential area in June 2021 killed 25 people in Hubei province, in the center of the country.
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