Rescuers search for survivors in deadly South Africa building collapse

George, South Africa: Rescuer workers said on Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people under the rubble in a race to save dozens still unaccounted...

George, South Africa: Rescuer workers said on Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people under the rubble in a race to save dozens still unaccounted for after a building collapsed in the South African city of George killing at least six.

Twenty-eight people have been pulled out of the debris of the five-storey apartment block, which caved in Monday afternoon while under construction, municipal authorities said.

Six of those have died, the authorities said in George, 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of Cape Town.

Forty-seven people were still unaccounted for, including the 11 with whom contact had been established.

"We are in contact with 11 people" trapped under rubble, Colin Deiner, head of rescue operations, told a news conference in Cape Town.