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Emergency teams worked through the night to extricate construction workers from the rubble of a collapsed multi-storey building in George on the Garden Route.
At 5.15am on Tuesday, the George municipality confirmed four people were declared deceased and 24 workers were found and are being treated, leaving 51 unaccounted for.
The building at 75 Victoria Street collapsed soon after 2pm on Monday.
"Three teams of rescue personnel are working on three different areas within the site of the collapsed building," the municipality said.
The disaster saw the deployment of 111 emergency and disaster personnel working on site through the night. Two sniffer dogs were brought in and relief emergency personnel were expected to arrive by midnight from the City of Cape Town and Breede Valley municipality.
