Seven dead as two more bodies found in Cambodia building collapse (update)

Rescue personnel carrying a survivor at the site where an under-construction building collapsed in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on Saturday (Jan 4). Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the rubble of a collapsed building after the incident took place on Friday. - AFP

PHNOM PENH: Search and rescue teams in Cambodia found two more bodies Saturday (Jan 4) in the rubble of a collapsed building in the coastal province of Kep, raising the death toll in the disaster to seven, officials said.

By Saturday evening, 18 people had been rescued, injured but alive, and crowds watched in the afternoon as two more survivors were pulled out and rushed to ambulances more than 20 hours after the accident.