BEIJING: A little girl protected by the embrace of her dead father was the last survivor pulled out of the rubble of collapsed multi-storey buildings in China, reports said Tuesday. She was found deep in the debris of four six-storey residential buildings more than 12 hours after they crumbled in Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, killing at least 22 people, state broadcaster CCTV said. Neighboring buildings constructed in the 1970s were being demolished to prevent further collapses, the official Xinhua news agency reported. China has seen several building collapses in recent years, with some blamed on low-quality construction. In May 16 people were reported dead after a residential building in Guizhou province in the southwest collapsed due to landslides.

Source: Manila Times October 11, 2016 08:03 UTC