Death toll rises to 16 in collapsed China apartment building

The last three missing residents from a collapsed nine-storey apartment building were found dead on Saturday, taking the death toll to 16 in the south-western Chinese city of Guiyang,
state media reported, according to dpa.

Ninety-eight residents escaped when rain triggered a landslide that demolished the building on Wednesday evening amid record levels of rainfall in southern China, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

More than 1,000 residents were evacuated from nearby buildings as over 100 firefighters and soldiers searched the debris with sniffer dogs and life detectors.