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Four dead in China quarantine hotel collapse

Byindianadmin

Mar 8, 2020
Four dead in China quarantine hotel collapse

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A minimum of 6 people are dead and 28 stay missing after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed on Saturday.

Rescue employees are still browsing the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel in the southern province of Fujian.

Seventy-one people were in the structure when it collapsed and dozens have been rescued, authorities say.

It is unclear what caused the collapse on Saturday night.

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Rescue employees continued to search for survivors on Sunday.

State media state the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus clients. It’s reported 58 of the 71 people in the building were under quarantine.

The building’s very first floor had actually been undergoing r

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