23 people are still trapped in the rubble, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. There has been no news of 39 others since the accident.
The six-storey building, which housed a cinema and a boarding house, among other things, collapsed in the city of Changsha on Friday afternoon. It was unclear how many people were in the building at the time. The authorities initially only announced on Saturday that five people had been rescued.
Accordingly, the rescue workers had been looking for possible survivors under the rubble throughout the night. According to the authorities, the rescue work continued on Saturday.
According to the central government in Beijing, State Councilor Wang Yong is in charge of the rescue and emergency measures in Changsha. The fact that a high-ranking KP representative was sent to the scene of the accident was generally taken as a sign of the seriousness of the situation.
Source: Nachrichten
