Ten-storey hotel collapses in Argentina sparking desperate hunt for people trapped under rubble

A ten-storey edifice has collapsed successful Argentina sparking a hunt for survivors, pinch arsenic galore arsenic 9 group feared trapped beneath nan rubble.

The Dubrovnik edifice building collapsed early connected Tuesday successful nan coastal metropolis of Villa Gesell successful nan state of Buenos Aires, nan section municipality said successful a statement.

Between 7 and 9 people, including workers from a building tract allegedly operating without municipal permits, were believed to beryllium wrong astatine nan time, it said.

Rescue teams are presently removing nan debris to free those trapped, nan Villa Gesell authorities noted, adding that nan municipality had halted building activity astatine nan tract successful August of this year.

Dramatic aerial pictures show a heap of rubble wherever nan building stood amongst different precocious emergence blocks.

'At this time, though it is not imaginable to speak pinch immoderate nonstop specifications astir nan collapse, it tin beryllium confirmed that nan building successful nan collapsed portion [the rear part] would person been modified illegally and irregularly,' nan section assembly said.

'The municipality of Villa Gesell requests that residents and nan media beryllium cautious pinch immoderate accusation they whitethorn circulate,' nan connection went on.

'These are cardinal moments successful which activity is being done to forestall nan nonaccomplishment of quality lives.'