Watch as rescue efforts proceed after six individuals have been killed and dozens left trapped when a constructing below building collapsed in South Africa.
Groups labored by the evening trying to find dozens of building staff buried below the rubble of concrete after a multi-story condo complicated that was being constructed collapsed on Monday 6 Might within the coastal metropolis of George.
Greater than 100 emergency personnel and different responders have been on the scene, utilizing sniffer canines to attempt to find the employees, a few of whom have been feared buried below enormous slabs of concrete that fell on them when the five-storey constructing got here down.
Massive cranes and different heavy lifting tools have been dropped at the positioning to assist with the rescue effort and tall spotlights have been erected to permit search and rescue personnel to work by the evening.
There have been 75 staff on the development web site when the constructing collapsed, the George municipality mentioned. It added three groups of rescuers have been working at separate websites across the collapsed constructing the place they believed building staff have been prone to be.
Authorities mentioned early Tuesday that 49 staff remained unaccounted for within the mangled wreckage of the constructing, whereas 21 had been rescued.
