Rescue workers reported on Tuesday making contact with 11 people under the rubble in a race toThirty-three people have been pulled out of the debris of the five-storey apartment block, which caved in Monday afternoon while under construction, municipal authorities said.Forty-two people were still unaccounted for, including the 11 with whom contact had been established, the authorities said.
Recalling that the international standard for such operations is three days, George mayor Leon van Wyk told a local television station in the early evening that “over the next 40-odd hours we are hoping to rescue as many people” as operations entered a second day. A construction crew of 75 people was on site at the time of the collapse at around 14:00 on Monday, authorities said.
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