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Cambodia building collapse: two workers found alive from Chinese-owned site
- Rescuers on Monday found two survivors beneath the rubble of a Chinese-owned building that collapsed on Saturday
- A hospital official said the two were in ‘serious condition’ after being trapped with no food or water for two days
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Rescuers on Monday found two survivors in the rubble of a Chinese-owned building two days after it collapsed in Cambodia, killing at least 28 workers and injuring 26 others.
A hospital official said the two were very weak and could only speak in a soft voice.
“They are in serious condition after being trapped since early Saturday without any food or water,” he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
The seven-storey building collapsed on top of dozens of construction workers who were sleeping on the second floor. The condominium was being built in the thriving seaside resort town of Sihanoukville, where condos and hotels are springing up to cash in on the surge in Chinese visitors to its dozens of casinos.
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Workers clawed back the rubble overnight as a grim-faced Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen visited the scene of the collapse. He ordered inspections of all building sites in the town.
These buildings are coming up in just a year. We have been concerned for a long time about the quality of these Chinese buildings.
Three Chinese nationals and a Cambodian landowner have been held for questioning over the building collapse.
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The governor of Preah Sihanouk province resigned on Monday, saying he had made a managerial “mistake”, according to a post on Hun Sen’s Facebook page.
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