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RESCUERS IN CENTRAL China have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed almost six days earlier, state media has reported.
The unidentified woman is the 10th survivor of the disaster in the city of Changsha, in which at least five people have died and an unknown number, possibly dozens, are still missing.
She was rescued shortly after midnight on Thursday, about 132 hours after the rear of the six-story building suddenly caved in on 29 April, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The woman was conscious and advised rescuers on how to pull her out without causing further injury, Xinhua said. Teams had used dogs and hand tools as well as drones and electronic life detectors in the search.
All of the survivors were reportedly in good condition after having been treated in a hospital. Intermittent rain showers in recent days may have increased their chances of survival without food or water.
At least nine people have been arrested in relation to the collapse of what Xinhua has described as a “self-built building”, including its owner, on suspicion of ignoring building codes or committing other violations.
Also held were three people in charge of design and construction and five others who allegedly gave a false safety assessment for a guest house on the building’s fourth to sixth floors.
The building also held a residence, a cafe and shops.
An increase in the number of collapses of self-built buildings in recent years prompted Chinese President Xi Jinping to call last month for additional checks to uncover structural weaknesses.
Poor adherence to safety standards, including the illegal addition of extra floors and failure to use reinforcing iron bars, is often blamed for such disasters. China also suffers from decaying infrastructure such as gas pipes that has led to explosions and collapses.
Seeing as it is Ulster TV, isn’t it already UTV Ireland?
Strange sityeeation
So it is, So it is.
Luckily, my TV is already UTV-Ready. It has an Off button.
32 county UTV based in Dublin!!! Disgrase so it is. No surrender to Patrick Lyons and James Buchanon ;)
UTV have “regional limits” on their online video playback system. Some of Ulster can’t watch UTV!!!
Quackers….
Does this mean the Julian guy is back?
Jebus! Garth Brooks and now Julian!
The biggest comeback since Lazarus!
much of their content is on TV3.
will this make any difference?
They’re going to take Coronation Street and other ITV stuff away from TV3 and keep it for the new channel.
aah…. OK.
troubling times for TV3 then.
‘and naii on the utv ….’
Silly accents and pointless divisions over the same silly religion. I can’t wait until they broadcast that down here. I wonder if the yanks would donate a signal jammer in exchange for Shannon?
Don’t go any further than Fair City for the silly accent
There is only one station on this island that’s worse than RTE and that’s UTV.
Eh…TV3!?! Constantly recycling the “Ireland’s Worst…” label & churning out utter shite in the process!! Take away the few American syndicated shows and films broadcast and that’s all they have!! Oh sorry, that and Xpose!!
I honestly couldn’t say Mark,the only thing I watch on TV3 is Vincent Browne but I’ll take your word for it.
So you watch RTE, UTV & VinB…Understood!
Agreed 100%
Nothing could be worse than RTE. Nuclear apocalypse maybe
For the sake of continuity, I want to know if this is for real, or just provisional?
What you did there, I seen it.
Oh great , more soap/xfactor saturation.
Well the reason we get so much of that sh*t is because people(cough women) watch it in droves.
Will it be on Saorview?
All terrestrial channels are on saorview including this new one.
can anybody tell me we are going to get a national television station.of our own ???
Has anything been learned look at the history of Sky Ireland most of us have Utv so maybe there’s only a new news coming .Rte and Tv3 already have are we going to have more imported stuff left on the shelf in the states and flogged off for next to nothing
“Oh frabjous day, Kaloo,. Kallay” he warbled in his joy. If one does not bother to watch the existing channel, why would one watch channel mark 2?
Why all the negativity? More choice has to be a good thing. I wish UTV well in their endeavour.
Cos people on here love to bitch about anything at all, imagine a new station..who cares?
Which of the CH mucser will it be transmitted on the RTE1 or 2 HD transponders or will there be a third transponder used, as there are 4 available to chose from
turra ler der der
Tv3 just the same stuff
Oh great. Just what we need. Another a Irish channel to ignore.
does this mean more American crap over the digital network coming to our screens !
UTV Internet have a great Broadband service down south – hopefully TV will be included.
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