Sunday 5 July 2015

6 dead in east China factory collapse

(Xinhua) 10:29, July 05, 2015

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Rescuers carry an injured person at a collapsed factory building in Wenling, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 4, 2015. Nine people were still trapped in the rubble of a factory building that collapsed on Saturday afternoon in east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua)

HANGZHOU, July 5 -- Six people died in hospital after being rescued from the rubble of a factory building that collapsed on Saturday afternoon in east China's Zhejiang Province, local government said.

Fifty-one people were working in the factory building of a shoemaker in Wenling City when it collapsed at around 4 p.m. and 9 narrowly escaped. Rescuers saved 40 in the ruin and sent them to hospital.

The rescue work is still underway with the cause of the accident under investigation.

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