Rescuers search for survivors after Tanzania building collapse
The Peninsula
Dar es Salaam: Rescuers were using their bare hands, drills and sledge hammers to reach dozens of people trapped under a building that collapsed in th...
Dar es Salaam: Rescuers were using their bare hands, drills and sledge hammers to reach dozens of people trapped under a building that collapsed in the centre of Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Saturday.
The multi-storey building in Kariakoo, the East African country's busiest market, caved in as people were shopping, killing at least one person, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said.
Hundreds of people, including army rescuers, clawed through the piles of rubble in the hunt for survivors, alongside excavators.
At least 56 people had been rescued, Tanzania Red Cross Society said on X.
Witnesses told The Citizen newspaper that the building started expanding its underground business space on Friday before it collapsed a day later.
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