BEIJING (AFP) - A hotel collapsed in eastern China on Monday (July 12), leaving at least one person dead and 10 others missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Rescuers had pulled seven survivors from the rubble of the budget Siji Kaiyuan hotel in the popular tourist city of Suzhou, CCTV reported.
CCTV said the rescue was "fully under way", adding that the authorities were investigating the cause of the disaster.
The Siji Kaiyuan opened in 2018 and had 54 guest rooms as well as a banquet hall and conference rooms, according to its listing on the travel site Ctrip.
Images published by CCTV showed more than a dozen rescue workers in helmets at the site of the disaster, with the warped cladding of the hotel visible atop a mound of rubble.
Building collapses or accidents are not uncommon in China, often due to lax construction standards or corruption.
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【苏州市政府报】7月12日15时33分许，苏州市吴江区松陵镇油车路188号四季开源酒店发生倒塌事故。经初步了解15人被困。 pic.twitter.com/fHEeMgMSl0
— 吴文行wenxingwu (@wuwenhang) July 12, 2021
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