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A two-storey building has collapsed in China’s central
Henan province killing 17 construction workers and
injuring 23 others, state media has reported.
Rescue workers searched overnight pulling bodies and
survivors from the debris in Beiwudu in Wuyang
county. Nine of the injured, being treated at a hospital
in nearby Luohe city, are in a serious condition,
officials said. Renovation work was being carried out
on the foundations of the building when the accident
happened, they said.
The local government in Wuyang county has now
called off the search for survivors. An investigation is
under way to establish the exact cause of the accident,
which happened on Friday afternoon. It will renew
concerns about enforcing building safety regulations in
China, correspondents say. In May, a nursing home in
Henan province that was destroyed by fire, killing 38
people, was found to have been poorly constructed
using flammable material .
One of the survivors from Friday’s collapse told state-
run CCTV that many of the workers had come from
Nanyang city in south-west Henan province to work
on the site.
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