Dozens of construction workers were buried under rubble in the city of George.
Rescue teams worked through the night searching for dozens of construction workers buried for more than 12 hours under the rubble of concrete after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.
The collapse happened in the city of George, about 250 miles east of Cape Town on South Africa’s south coast. It said three teams of rescuers were working at separate sites around the collapsed building where they believed construction workers were likely to be.“Our thoughts are with the families and all those affected who continue to wait on word of their loved ones,” George Executive Mayor Leon Van Wyk said.
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