PHNOM PENH: At least 10 people were killed and 23 injured after a building in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble, officials said on Saturday.
The seven-storey concrete building collapsed on Friday in the coastal town of Kep, about 160km southwest of the capital Phnom Penh.
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It came a year after another construction site collapsed, killing 28 people in Preah Sihanouk province.
"There are five dead that we have already pulled out and there are other five people dead that we saw and we haven't been able to pull out from the collapsed building yet," Kep governor Ken Satha told Reuters.
Rescuers look for trapped workers after a seven-storey building under construction collapsed in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on Jan 3, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Nget Touch)
An unknown number of workers remained trapped, Satha said, adding that authorities had detained a Cambodian couple, the owners of the building, for questioning.
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The couple had intended to build a guesthouse, Satha said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Saturday that rescuers were still struggling to reach those missing in the rubble.
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