China: 22 people die in residential house collapse in Zhejiang Province

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Two more bodies recovered from the debris of four residential houses that collapsed in China’s eastern coastal Zhejiang Province, rose the death toll to 22.

About 800 rescuers at the scene have ended their search. 28 people were pulled from the debris in Wenzhou’s Lucheng industrial district, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Six survivors were hospitalised. They are in stable conditions. One of the survivors is a young girl who was protected by the bodies of her parents, who were killed in the collapse, the report said. The cause of the disaster is under investigation.

Rescuers said the collapsed buildings were built by villagers. Five adjacent houses built in the 1970s remain standing, but rescuers are demolishing them to avoid secondary disasters.

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