BEIJING — A two-story restaurant in a northern China village that collapsed during an 80th birthday celebration for a resident, leaving 29 dead, authorities said Sunday as rescue efforts were called off.
The Ministry of Emergency Management said another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when the building in in Xiangfen county in the northern Shanxi province suddenly crumbled on Saturday.
A total of 57 people were brought out alive, the ministry said.
There was no immediate word on what caused the collapse or on the fate of the birthday guest and other celebrants. Hundreds of rescue workers using sniffer dogs, cranes and high-tech sensors had searched the rubble, lifting slabs of concrete in hopes of freeing survivors. (NBC News)
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