HANGZHOU, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — Eight people have been confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province after another body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon, a local official said.
Four sniffer dogs and more than 400 rescuers are still searching for 13 others, whose hope to survive is very slim after being trapped for more than 72 hours, said Cai Qi, mayor of Hangzhou.
A 75-m section of a subway tunnel under construction collapsed Saturday afternoon. Besides those dead or missing, 24 others were injured.
A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.
BEIJING, China (CNN) — A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.
The search continues for the missing, who are believed to be trapped in the construction site in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua news agency reported.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — A Port-au-Prince school partly collapsed Wednesday days after more than 90 were killed in another school cave-in, sparking a panic among parents of children in other risky schools and street protests over dangerous buildings.
Nine people were injured when walls at the small Grace Divine school in central Port-au-Prince partly gave way and the ceiling began to fall in, police said.
Students at the school, attended by about 100 pupils aged five to 12, were in the recreation yard when it happened, police said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors on Sunday and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed, officials said.
PETIONVILLE, Haiti – Haitian police on Sunday were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and setting off a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.
Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse in suburban Port-au-Prince, was arrested late Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter, said police spokesman Garry Desrosier.
Augustin was being held at a police station in Haiti’s capital, while a U.S. rescue crew searched overnight for survivors of Friday’s collapse of the three-story building, which normally holds 500 students and teachers.
A hillside school operated by a church, in which about 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed Friday during classes, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more.
Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage.
A built collapsed in New Delhi on Sunday onto several vehicles below, killing two people and wounding 11 others, police said.
Workers were lifting heavy concrete slabs for the bridge, part of the city’s new metro rail system, when the crane toppled over, sending the bridge plummeting down.
The accident sent large slabs of concrete and heavy yellow steel beams crashing down on several vehicles in a crowded neighborhood in the eastern part of the city.
CAIRO (AFP) - At least 12 people were killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria before dawn on Wednesday when a four-storey apartment block collapsed as families slept, security and hospital officials said.
Eleven bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building where about 35 people lived, and one man succumbed to his injuries in hospital, the officials said. At least six people were injured in the collapse.
The recovered bodies included a woman locked in an embrace with her baby, the official MENA news agency reported, adding that the search was going on for more bodies.
