Convenience store collapses in HCM City, killing at least one


Rescuers are responding to save people still trapped inside the convenience store in HCM City on Jan 18 morning. - plo.vn

HCM CITY (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Rescuers are urgently attempting to save people still trapped inside a convenience store in HCM City on Wednesday (Jan 18) after its storage section on the first floor collapsed on many customers and staff members on the ground floor, killing at least one person.

The teenage girl taken out of the store at 9:45am was unconscious and had suffered multiple injuries. Police later confirmed that she had died.

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