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China confirms 9 more deaths in Suzhou hotel collapse, bringing death toll to 17
- State media announces the end of search and recovery efforts after collapse of budget hotel on Monday afternoon
- People linked to the hotel have been detained by authorities as they try to establish what caused it to crumble
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Nine more people have been confirmed dead in the collapse of a budget hotel in eastern China, bringing the final toll to 17, as state media announced on Wednesday the end of search and recovery efforts.
Six others were earlier rescued from the rubble of the Siji Kaiyuan hotel, which crumbled in a heap of shattered concrete and bent metal beams two days earlier in the picturesque city of Suzhou.
All those rescued were in a stable condition, state-run television said.
It added that an unspecified number of people linked to the hotel had been detained and an investigation into the cause of the disaster was under way.
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The hotel opened in 2018 and had 54 guest rooms, according to its listing on the travel site Ctrip.
Suzhou, a city of more than 12 million people about 100km (60 miles) west of Shanghai, is a popular destination for tourists drawn to its canals and centuries-old gardens.
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