{{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}}.<\/p>\n
Scores of construction workers remain trapped in the rubble.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
City officials are working with the National Service arm of the Tanzania People\u2019s Defence Force and Ultimate Security, a private company, to try and reach any survivors.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said there were no sufficient equipment, and that the rescuers only have one functioning crane.<\/p>\n
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