"building collapse"

Rescuers are racing against time in search of people trapped in the debris of an eight-story building that collapsed in Changsha City of central China's Hunan Province, said Zheng Jianxin, mayor of Changsha, at a press conference on Saturday.

At least 97 people were killed in the June 24 collapse and at least one more person believed missing has yet to be identified.

The president of the board of the Florida condominium that collapsed last week resigned in 2019, partly in frustration over what she saw as the sluggish response to an engineers report that identified major structural damage the previous year.

First responders on the ground at the Miami Beach-area condo that partially collapsed last week have used several tech tools to aid the treacherous search-and-rescue effort.

So far, seven people have died and 18 others injured in a six-story building collapse in the coastal province of Kep on Friday.

Sihanoukville, Cambodia - The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to be found under the debris of the seven-storey Chinese-owned construction site.

A four-storey building in Bangkok’s Soi Ramkhamhaeng 51/2 area, which was in the process of being demolished, partially collapsed on Monday afternoon, resulting in injuries to two passers-by.

A group of teenagers practising for a dance and music show were among seven Indonesians killed Monday when the building they were in collapsed, police said.

Nakhon Trang Municipality officials and engineers on Wednesday inspected the under-construction Phraya Ratsadanupradit Art and Culture Centre in Trang's Muang district after it partially collapsed.

AUTHORITIES yesterday accelerated the retrieval of the bodies of two construction workers killed during the demolition of an eight-storey building on Sukhumvit Soi 87 in Bangkok.

THE Labour Ministry has given money from the Social Security Office Fund (SSO) to the families of five women killed when a gymnasium they were helping to build collapsed in Krabi’s Muang district on Friday.