China Hotel Collapse Kills Eight; Rescuers Search for Nine Missing

Reuters via Epoch Times ^ | 07/14/2021

[SeekAndFind]

SHANGHAI—Part of a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Suzhou killing eight people and rescue workers were searching on Tuesday for nine people missing in the ruins, state media reported.

The collapse of part of the Siji Kaiyuan Hotel in the coastal city happened on Monday afternoon. The Ministry of Emergency Management sent a team to help with the rescue work, media reported.

The cause of the collapse was under investigation, the Xinhua news agency reported. It published photographs of rescue workers combing through rubble in the search for survivors.

The Siji Kaiyuan is a budget hotel that opened in 2018. The part that collapsed was three storeys tall while an online booking site said the hotel had 54 rooms.

[dfwgator]

Difference between Florida and China. In China, somebody is going to get a bullet in the head for this.

[sauropod]

I’ve seen yoo toob videos on Chinese construction practices.

Not good.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

It is also worth noting that the building in Florida was 40 years old and the one in China was only three years old.

[Blood of Tyrants]

A huge difference is the age of the hotel in China (3 years old) vs Florida (40 years old) and size (China was only three stories and the Miami condo was 12 stories).

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Who needs pilings to bedrock? It's an overrated colonial theory of western white supremacists!

[Rebelbase]

Not surprising when they construct 15 story buildings in two weeks.

[TaMoDee]

The AE firm doing the foundation design hired a structural engineer who flunked CE Course Foundations 101!

[Chode]

coincidentally the offset to the next building row is just far enough away to not get clipped...

by design?

[sauropod]

I’ve seen that picture before.

Also saw a video of a 3 story concrete structure crumbling and the rebar corroding. Stunning, really.

[arthurus]

When I was a tad in Istanbul I remember that every time the earth trebled a wee bit one or two apartment buildings would collapse. Dad said is was because there was no rebar in the concrete.

[Jeff Chandler]

What kind of third world country has buildings that just “fall down”?

[Bigg Red]

Prayers up.