The George municipality announced that search and rescue efforts were completed after a building collapsed with construction workers on site.
Four construction workers have now been confirmed deceased after an embankment collapsed at a Ballito construction site in Durban on Saturday morning.
Although the fifth worker has been located alive, his leg is still trapped under the sand, as rescue teams consider ways to extricate him without causing further collapse or damage to his body.George building collapse: Rescue operation concludes with 62 confirmed on-siteMeanwhile, the George municipality announced on Friday that search and rescue efforts were completed after a building collapsed with construction workers on site.The site is now classified as a crime scene.
The SAPS will then hand it over to the Department of Labour and Employment for their investigation to be conducted. The municipality confirmed that with the rescue and recovery efforts completed, only 62 individuals are accounted for. CCTV also showed that some of the workers on the site left before the first responders reached the site. To date, they have never reported their whereabouts.Of the 62 rescued and recovered workers, 33 were confirmed deceased, with two of them still to be formally identified.According to the municipality, 15 workers are South Africans, 19 Mozambicans, seven Zimbabweans, 13 Malawians, five Basotho, one permanent residency holder, and two of unknown nationalities.
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