Search continues in rubble of collapsed South African building

(9 May 2024)
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George, South Africa - 9 May 2024
1. Various Search and Rescue personnel cutting steel rods with grinders
2. Wide Search and Rescue personnel looking on
3. Wide Search and Rescue personnel pointing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anton Bredell, Western Cape Provincial Minister of Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning:
"I think the last 24 hours was very difficult for the teams because we've only recovered one body. You will see the big machines. They busy what we delayering. They work down from the top to the bottom after we've lost contact for 24 hours with any people inside. We've managed to get the 11 that we had contacted out, it was the night before. So it's an operation that we need to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible, and therefore we need big machines. We've got three teams of dogs on the site also to support and to help and to work with the machines."
5. Various crews searching through the rubble with excavators
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Deiner, Western Cape Head of Disaster:
"It's a very controlled process whereby we remove one floor. We search the area, we put the dogs on, we do technical search. If we find nothing, we then remove the next floor. We've got lookouts to make sure that if we do uncover a victim, we're able to go in then and remove them. This is an ongoing process. We will be getting more specialized equipment in this afternoon, and then we're going to be going into the basement and into the lift shaft that's still in place. You know, the part of it that's still intact. And hopefully that's where there will still be a lot of voids and where we can possibly still find victims."
7. Various Various Search and Rescue personnel looking rubble

STORYLINE:
Search and Rescue operations continue for the fourth day in the building that collapsed on Monday in the town of George, South Africa.

One body was retrieved Wednesday evening increasing the death toll to eight with 44 workers still unaccounted for.

Efforts to retrieve those who are still trapped underground are continuing.

AP Video shot by Nqobile Ntshangase

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