Rescue mission continues 40 hours after George building collapse - SABC News

The rescue mission in George , Western Cape, continues to focus on finding survivors and pulling them from the rubble of the collapsed building.The Western Cape minister of local government, Anton Bredell, says the“We stand now on 36 people we got out, unfortunately, 7 deceased, and 39 we are looking for. We will take the dogs and walk the site again, they detect life and then we will focus and get those people out.

That is the main focus currently,” said BredellMeanwhile, the Western Cape government continuously updates the families of the workers involved in the building collapse in George.“The 16 red patients, the critical patients, we can’t identify them and we asked the construction people to send people who know. They are in the ops centre trying to identify people and then we take the families, there are private rooms.

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