About 30 still trapped after Chinese coronavirus quarantine hotel collapses

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 7, 2020 / 9:23 AM / UPDATED 32 MINUTES AGO

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - About 30 people remained trapped early on Sunday after a five-storey hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou, state media said.

About four hours after the collapse, the Quanzhou municipality said 38 of the 70 or so people who had been in the Quanzhou Xinjia Hotel had been rescued.

A video stream posted by the government-backed Beijing News site showed rescue workers in orange overalls clambering over rubble and twisted steelwork carrying people towards ambulances.

The hotel collapsed at about 7:30 p.m. (1130 GMT) on Saturday evening.

“I was at a gas station and heard a loud noise. I looked up and the whole building collapsed. Dust was everywhere, and glass fragments were flying around,” a witness said in a video posted on the Miaopai streaming app.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-hotel-collapse/about-30-still-trapped-after-chinese-coronavirus-quarantine-hotel-collapses-idUSKBN20U0LW?il=0

[Renew Deal]

1. Did someone develop super powers?

[IronLionZion]

8. Chinese buildings are often very cheaply constructed

Safety is not as high a priority over there

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. "Oy vey, what a week I'm having!"

"First I get quarantined in a hotel because of the coronavirus, then the hotel collapses...what's next, a volcano erupting in my back yard?"

[AllyCat]

3. OMG This is awful. What else?

[customerserviceguy]

4. There is

that hospital that they slapped together in a week. My guess is that building inspectors were pretty scarce during that project.

[AllyCat]

5. .

[Marie Marie]

6. Horror on top of horror. This is awful.

[dhol82]

7. I'm going to guess that they cut a few corners during construction.

[Kaleva]

9. Just when you think your life can't get any suckier, it gets suckier.

[milestogo]

10. I wonder if there were way too many people in it.