At least 20 people were killed today when four multi-storey residential buildings packed with migrant workers collapsed in eastern China’s coastal Zhejiang Province. The six-storey buildings collapsed in Wenzhou’s Lucheng industrial district and rescuers were verifying the number of people trapped under the debris. Earlier today rescuers pulled out six people alive from under the debris, state—run Xinhua news agency reported. Each room in the collapsed building used to have two to three tenants, the report cited Yan as saying. Several buildings have collapsed in recent years in China mainly due to poor construction.

Source: The Hindu October 10, 2016 15:00 UTC