Search for survivors as Cambodia building collapse toll rises to 7

Rescue personnel looking for survivors on Saturday (Jan 4) at the site where an under-construction building collapsed, trapping and killing workers, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province. A seven-storey building under construction collapsed in the area on Friday and trapping many workers under the rubble. - AFP

KKEP (CAMBODIA): Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Cambodia on Saturday (Jan 4) looking for bodies as the death toll from the disaster rose to seven.

They used excavators, drills and power saws to clear concrete the morning after the seven-storey hotel under construction in seaside Kep province crumbled to the ground with an estimated 30 workers inside, prompting an all-night rescue.