One dead, a dozen missing in Argentina hotel collapse: authorities

Buenos Aires: An elderly man was killed and a dozen people are missing after a ten storey building housing a hotel collapsed Tuesday in the Argentine...

Buenos Aires: An elderly man was killed and a dozen people are missing after a ten-storey building housing a hotel collapsed Tuesday in the Argentine seaside resort of Villa Gesell, local authorities and media reported.

"The incident occurred at approximately 1:00 am, when the 10-storey building where the Dubrovnik Hotel was located (...) collapsed," the municipality of Villa Gesell, 350 kilometers south of Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast said in a statement.

Javier Alonso, the provincial security minister, said that rescuers recovered the body of an 89-year-old man and that an injured woman had been taken to hospital.

About 300 rescue workers, using drones and sniffer dogs, were searching the rubble for survivors.