Five people were killed on Thursday when the roof of a Shanghai commercial building caved in upon construction workers who were renovating it.
Members of a rescue team carry out a victim of a building collapse in Shanghai.SHANGHAI - Five people were killed on Thursday when the roof of a Shanghai commercial building caved in upon construction workers who were renovating it, the city government said.
Official sources provided differing tallies of the numbers of people pulled out of the rubble throughout the day, but both the city government and the national emergency ministry now quote a death toll of five. The building had previously been used as a dealership for Mercedes-Benz cars, the fire rescue bureau said.Chinese media reports said the structure was around 3,000 square metres in area. Aerial pictures on social media appeared to indicate that the roof of about half of the building collapsed.
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