{{Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial city, is in a sombre mood this Good Friday after a 16-storey building collapsed in the city centre in the morning, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people}}.
Scores of construction workers remain trapped in the rubble.
Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police Commander Suleiman Kova told reporters on site that of the 17 individuals who were pulled out of the ruins, only two were alive.
The latest reports from the scene at Indira Gandhi Street indicate that rescue workers were struggling to reach those still trapped in the collapsed building.
City officials are working with the National Service arm of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force and Ultimate Security, a private company, to try and reach any survivors.
Witnesses said there were no sufficient equipment, and that the rescuers only have one functioning crane.
NMG
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