George building collapse - 4 dead, 51 workers trapped

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The five-storey building next to the George municipality offices has collapsed.

Gift of the Givers rescue team with sniffer dogs arrived at the scene of a collapsed construction site in George in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Four bodies have been pulled from the rubble after a building collapsed in George in the Western Cape on Monday.The death toll in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction along Victoria Street in George has risen to two, with 53 people still trapped in the rubble.

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