Rescue workers are scrambling to save as many lives as possible within the first crucial 24 hours.
Five deaths have so far been reported following the collapse of a multi-storey building that was being constructed on Victoria Street in George.Van Wyk confirmed that 21 survivors have been removed from the rubble and 49 people are still unaccounted for.
“There has been a little bit of verbal communication with people, and some cellphone communication with people.” He added that ‘there’s all sorts of specialist equipment that has come in’ and he’s grateful to the City of Cape Town and the provincial government that sent through teams last night. SAPS also sent sniffer dogs from Cape Town and Worcester
“In a building of this size, you need engineers and structural engineers and all of those competent people that would need to do ongoing testing the way construction like this takes place. No doubt, in time, this will be found out.”The head of Western Cape Disaster Management, Colin Deiner, said in a video interview from the site at 07:30 today that they had contacted 12 of the trapped people.
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