Quanzhou: A hotel collapsed at around 7.30pm in Licheng district of Quanzhou, East China’s Fujian province, and about 70 people were trapped.
Xinjia Hotel was used as a Covid-19 quarantine site for isolating people that had close contacts with infected patients, said the People’s Daily.A witness surnamed Wu, who lives near the hotel, said he heard a loud bang while he was having supper and thought it was an explosion.
He ran to the balcony and saw the building collapse and some people were being rescued from the rubble, according to mnw.cn.It was not clear how tall the building had been before it collapsed, but there appeared to be commercial properties at street level. The official Xinhua News Agency said the committee responsible for working safety under the State Council, China’s Cabinet, has sent an emergency working team to the site. — China Daily/ANN/Reuters
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