CHONGQING - Five people were crushed to death and two injured after a building rented by a small leather shoe factory as workshops in southwest China collapsed Tuesday night, local authorities announced Wednesday.
The accident took place at about 7:45 pm Tuesday when 13 workers were having meals in the first floor of a three-story building in a village in the Nan'an district in the city of Chongqing, the district government said in a statement.
The rescue operation ended Wednesday and among seven buried, two were pulled out alive and five were already dead.
An investigation into the cause of the collapse is underway.
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