Building Collapse

Death toll in Florida condo collapse rises as recovery efforts continue

Miami-Dade's fire chief said victims had been found "all throughout the rubble pile" but recovery efforts have been concentrated on areas where stairwells would have collapsed.

Florida ends search for survivors as Miami building collapse toll rises

Searchers extract 18 more bodies from rubble, raising the overall death toll to 54 with 86 people still unaccounted for, officials say.

Death toll from Miami condo collapse rises as rescuers find more bodies

A total of six bodies, including two children, have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in the Miami-area town of Surfside.

Rescuers working tirelessly to find survivors after Florida condo collapse

The death toll stands at at least nine with 152 people still missing and their weary families waiting in agony almost four days after the incident.

Many feared dead in Miami residential building collapse

Hundreds of fire and rescue workers scour through tonnes of rubble as a 12-storey oceanfront residential building partially collapses in southern Florida, with at least one person dead and 99 still unaccounted for, officials say.

India building collapse: More bodies found as hopes of survivors dim

Rescue workers battle rain and cramped conditions to sift through rubble for possible survivors as many people are still missing two days after the three-storey building collapsed in a town in Mumbai's outskirts.

India building collapse: Death toll climbs as rescue work continues

At least 20 people have died with many still buried under the debris of a three-storey building that collapsed in Bhiwandi town in the outskirts of Mumbai.

Over two dozen dead in China restaurant collapse

Another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when the building suddenly tumbled on Saturday, according to officials.

Survivors rescued from collapsed building in India

One resident has been killed and more than 60 people have been pulled from the rubble after a five-storey apartment building collapsed near a slum district in Mahad.

Dozens trapped as building collapses in Sierra Leone – police

At least 50 people are missing and feared dead after a three-story building under construction collapsed in Bo, Sierra Leone’s second largest city.

Dozens of children trapped in collapsed Nigeria building

Rescue efforts are underway in capital Lagos after a four-storey building housing an "illegal school" collapsed while classes were in session.

Death toll in Mumbai building collapse climbs to 17

The 40-year-old building in Mumbai's eastern suburb of Ghatkopar housed a nursing home on the ground floor and three to four families on each of the other floors.