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