Rescue work was turning into a victim recovery effort after an apartment building collapsed in South Africa, trapping dozens of construction workers.

Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have brought out more survivors as the operation ent

Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after an apartment complex collapsed in South Africa brought out more survivors Tuesday as they entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the wreckage.

Relatives of 44 construction workers trapped under a collapsed building in the South African city of George faced a fourth day of anguished waiting on Thursday as heavy machinery worked at the site in a race against time to find any survivors.

By shafiek tassiem and Wendell Roelf GEORGE, South Africa (Reuters) -Rescuers were using cranes, drills and their bare hands to try to reach dozens of people trapped when a multi-storey building being built in the South African city of George collapsed,

Rescuers raced against time to find more survivors amid the rubble of a deadly building collapse in South Africa on Wednesday, as search operations were about to enter their third day.

Moses Malala, a 34-year-old construction worker who escaped the wreckage of a five-storey building in George, South Africa, recalled the moment it collapsed and a cloud of dust engulfed him, as rescue efforts continued at the site 48 hours on.

Twenty-nine of the 75 workers who were at the site when the building collapsed in the city of George have been pulled out of the rubble alive. Rescuers used underground cameras and sniffer dogs amid the rubble,