Tag: #BUILDING COLLAPSE
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Mayor Sandoval lauds rescuers who saved woman trapped from collapsed residential building in Malabon
Malabon City Mayor Jeannie Sandoval lauded on Monday, Dec. 5, the city rescuers and volunteers for successfully saving a woman who was trapped inside a four-story residential building that collapsed in Barangay Longos on Sunday, Dec. 4.
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One body found after buildings collapse in France’s Lille
LILLE, France — Rescue workers retrieved one body early Sunday in the northern French town of Lille, following an hours-long search through the rubble of two collapsed buildings.
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Death toll from Iran building collapse rises to 41
TEHRAN, Iran — The death toll from the collapse of an Iranian building two weeks ago has risen to 41 after three more bodies were found, local authorities said Monday.
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China building collapse death toll rises to 53
BEIJING, China — Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction.
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Death toll rises to 26 in Chinese building collapse
BEIJING, China — Chinese authorities raised the number of people confirmed dead in a building collapse to 26 on Thursday, nearly a week after the block containing apartments, a hotel and a cinema caved in and emergency workers launched a massive rescue operation to pull out survivors.
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9 suspects detained after building collapses in central China
CHANGSHA, China — Public security authorities detained nine people on Sunday after a self-constructed residential building collapsed Friday in central China’s Hunan Province.
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Dozens trapped in China building collapse
BEIJING, China — Dozens of people were trapped under a building which collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as rescuers clawed through the rubble and used buzzsaws to pull several survivors free.
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One dead, 99 unaccounted for in Florida building collapse
SURFSIDE, United States – A high-rise oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach partially collapsed early Thursday, killing at least one person and leaving 99 unaccounted for, with fears the toll may rise much higher as rescuers comb through the rubble.