14 feared dead as building collapse at Cantonments

About 14 people are feared dead when a three-storey building under construction near the Free Zones Board at Cantonments in Ghana’s capital Accra caved in on Saturday.

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.

So far one person has been confirmed dead.

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

Frantic efforts are being made to rescue all the trapped workers.