Rescue workers stretcher a wounded man out from the debris of a collapsed building rented by Melcom Ltd, which runs Ghana's largest chain of retail department stores, in Accra November 7, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
ACCRA (Reuters) - An Israeli military team arrived in Ghana on Thursday to help search for survivors a day after a four-storey shopping mall collapsed in the West African state's capital Accra, killing at least nine.
Officials said more people than initially thought were still trapped in the wreckage of the department store, which collapsed due to suspected structural failure, but they declined to provide an estimate.
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