TamilDeath toll in Chinese hotel collapse raises to 17
14 July 2021, 11:39 am
This photo taken on July 12, 2021 shows rescuers searching at the site of a hotel after it collapsed leaving at least one dead and 10 others missing in the city of Suzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by - / CNS / AFP) / China OUT
The death toll in the collapse of a hotel in eastern China was raised to 17 Wednesday as authorities ended the search and rescue mission.
The city of Suzhou said on its social media feed that 23 people had been pulled alive from the rubble of the Kaiyuan Hotel, which collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.
Rescuers used cranes, ladders, metal cutters and search dogs to look for survivors. Twenty-three people had been trapped.
Most of those killed were hotel guests.
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