One person has been killed and as many as 50 are feared trapped after the roof of a shopping centre under construction in South Africa collapsed.
At least 26 people have so far been pulled from the rubble at the building site at Tongaat, some 25 miles from Durban, police spokeswoman Mandy Govender said.
"It was a mall building still under construction," said Ms Govender. "Most of those still trapped inside the building were construction workers."
Emergency paramedics at the scene used sniffer dogs and specialist equipment to find survivors under the vast broken plinth of concrete and mesh of rebar.
"An estimated 50 are underneath the rubble," said paramedic Neil Powell at the scene.
The paramedic said most of the injuries were "broken bones, multi-fractures and crush injuries ... some are in severe condition, others are mild."
The cause of the roof collapse was not immediately clear.
It is not known what caused the collapse. Pic: Crisis Medical. Tongaat is around 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the Indian Ocean city of Durban.
Cheap labour means it is not unusual to see hundreds of construction workers toiling away at a site in South Africa.
Sky's Correspondent Alex Crawford said the building did not have planning permission.
"This is a site, according to the local people, the community leaders, that was not actually meant to go ahead.
"...They're now saying they had serious doubts about this right from the start.
"They felt the building was going up far too quickly, it was too unsteady, they were never allowed to see the detailed plans.
"And certainly, according to the minister of health for KwaZulu-Natal, they believed they had taken legal action to show that the building did not have the required planning permission to go ahead."
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