At least 38 people have so far been rescue­d from the rubble of the 80-room Xinjia hotel in coasta­l Quanzh­ou cityBEIJING: Around 70 people were trapped after the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China on Saturday evening, officials said. At least 38 people have so far been rescued from the rubble of the 80-room Xinjia hotel in coastal Quanzhou city, said the local government. Footage circulating on microblogging platform Weibo showed rescue workers combing through the building’s wreckage in the dark and reassuring a woman trapped under heavy debris as other wounded victims were carried into ambulances. Quanzhou authorities said over 700 rescue workers had been deployed to the scene along with ambulances, excavators and cranes. At least 20 people died in 2016 when a series of crudely-constructed multi-storey buildings packed with migrant workers collapsed in the eastern city of Wenzhou.

Source: The Express Tribune March 07, 2020 15:45 UTC