Beijing: Five people have been killed when a residential building collapsed in east China's Jiangxi province, officials said on Saturday.
One person remains missing, officials with the emergency rescue headquarters in Pingxiang city said. Rescuers managed to pull nine people from the debris yesterday, with one dead and one injured, both of whom were construction workers.
The other seven residents are in stable condition, rescuers said.
The upper levels of a six-story building crumbled in Xinxueqian Alley in Anyuan district at around 2:18 pm yesterday. Six families lived on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
"I thought it was an earthquake. I heard a loud bang and felt vibrations," said Zhong Zhiyong, who was home with his three-year-old grandson in their sixth-floor apartment when the accident happened.
"When I opened the door I saw the stairs had disappeared," he said.
Firemen used a scaling ladder to rescue Zhong and the child. Investigators are yet to announce the cause of the accident.
