3 dead, 20 rescued from collapsed building at Cantonments

The death toll in Saturday’s building collapse at Cantonments in Accra, has now come to three, with 20 others rescued.

Rescue workers including the police, military, National Disaster Management Organisation and others picked two more bodies Sunday after Saturday’s report of one dead.

A three-storey building, which was under construction collapsed last Saturday at Cantonments in Accra.

Those feared dead are workers who were numbering about 30 at the construction site when the building collapsed.

Some have been rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building, most of them severely injured.

Register for the workers show that about 16 labourers were working on the building when it collapsed.