Rescue teams in Tanzania say they have managed to establish contact with people who are still trapped a day after a four-storey building collapsed in the biggest city, Dar es Salaam.
They are managing to send them supplies of water, glucose and oxygen through small gaps in the debris.
Tapping sounds have been heard from inside the building in the city’s busy Kariakoo market area.
Thirteen people are known to have died, while 84 have so far been brought out alive, according to the latest figures from President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
She said the prime minister would now lead a “thorough inspection” of all buildings in the Kariakoo area.
The president added that the police would collect full details of the collapsed building from its owner.
Large crowds of bystanders applauded as rescue teams ferried survivors on stretchers past huge piles of concrete debris to take them to hospital.
Seven people were rescued on Sunday from the building’s basement, Dar es Salaam’s regional commissioner Albert Chalamila told The Citizen newspaper.
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