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Eighteen dead, 24 injured in Cambodia building collapse

A rescue team carries a wounded worker at a collapsed building in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, June 22, 2019. [Standard]

Eighteen people were killed when an under-construction building in Cambodia collapsed early on Saturday, an official said, as rescuers struggled to reach missing workers feared trapped under a mountain of twisted steel and rubble.

The seven-storey steel and concrete structure in the coastal town of Sihanoukville, west of the capital Phnom Penh, was a Chinese-owned project.

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