A rescuer carries a boy at the accident site of a hotel building collapse in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 9, 2020. A total of 52 people have been pulled out of the debris as of 8:00 p.m. Monday after a hotel building collapsed in Fujian Province Saturday evening, local authorities said. The death toll from the collapse has risen to 13 as of 8:00 p.m. Monday. The rescuers found a mother and her child in the rubble and pulled them out of the debris on Monday night. (Photo by Zeng Demeng/Xinhua)
FUZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A total of 52 people have been pulled out of the debris as of 8:00 p.m. Monday after a hotel building collapsed in east China's Fujian Province Saturday evening, local authorities said.
The death toll from the collapse has risen to 13 as of 8:00 p.m. Monday.
At the time of the collapse, a total of 71 people were trapped.
A preliminary investigation showed the hotel building was being decorated when the accident occurred and the owner of the building has been put under police control.
Construction of the building, with a floor area of 7,000 square meters, began in 2013. It was converted into a hotel in 2018 with 66 rooms.
