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Added on the 07/12/2021 12:30:10 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Rescue workers in the South African city of George are battling to save dozens of people, including many still unaccounted for, after a residential building collapsed killing at least six. The five-storey apartment block caved in on Monday (May 6) afternoon while under construction, municipal authorities from the coastal city said. IMAGES
Rescuers are searching through the rubble of a four-storey apartment building that collapsed in central Marseille, France's second city. At least five people have been injured in the incident and more casualties are expected, the city's mayor has warned. IMAGES
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a four-storey residential building which collapsed in Jordan's capital. The bodies of two people were recovered and 14 more were rescued but others remained trapped. IMAGES
Firefighters resume the search for possible other victims in the rubble of the buildings which burned in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the eastern Pyrenees region of southern France, killing eight people. They also secure the site. IMAGES