More than 40 people have been rescued after a five-storey hotel that was used as a coronavirus quarantine facility collapsed in the Chinese...
More than 40 people have been rescued after a five-storey hotel that was used as a coronavirus quarantine facility collapsed in the Chinese port city of Quanzhou on Saturday, AFP reported. Officials said around 70 people were initially trapped when the building collapsed.
Forty-three people have been rescued from the rubble, according to the state media. Search efforts are still underway.
Videos posted online showed rescue workers clambering over the rubble of the Quanzhou Xinjia Hotel and carrying people toward ambulances. The hotel was opened in June 2018 with 80 rooms, according to the People’s Daily.
It is not clear why the building collapsed and officials are yet to confirm whether anyone died in the accident.
Authorities said 36 emergency rescue vehicles, 67 firefighting vehicles, 15 ambulances, and more than 700 firefighters, medical and other rescue workers were at the scene as the operation stretched into the night.
Forty-nine people have been rescued as of 8:20 am on Sunday after a hotel building collapsed in E China's Fujian Saturday evening, local authorities said. The National Health Commission dispatched 18 medical experts to Quanzhou to support local emergency relief work. pic.twitter.com/szdkPYDsLX
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