Rescuers try to save a survivor at the site where a two-story building collapsed in Hedao village, Fengzhuang township in Yanjin County, central China's Henan Province, May 3, 2013. The building collapsed on Friday morning, leaving at least seven workers dead. Thirty-seven people, most of them women, were lifting the building's foundations when it toppled. Twenty-one people have been rescued from the collapsed building. Rescue efforts are continuing. (Xinhua/Li Zhi)
A building collapsed in central China's Henan Province on Friday morning, leaving at least seven workers dead.
The two-story building collapsed at 10:20 a.m. in Hedao village, Fengzhuang township in Yanjin County.
Thirty-seven people, most of them women, were lifting the building's foundations when it toppled.
Twenty-one people have been rescued from the collapsed building. Rescue efforts are continuing.
The construction team's boss has been put into custody.
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