building collapse

Three workers were killed Monday during a partial collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Houston, according to fire department officials.

A residential building that was due for repairs has collapsed in central India, killing at least 10 people.

Rescue efforts ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village that collapsed during a local resident’s 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead.

Seventeen people have been killed in China after a two-story restaurant collapsed.

A building under renovation collapsed in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday and a home security camera caught the whole thing. One person was hit by falling debris and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, the D.C. fire department said. All workers were accounted for. Video from resident Andy Feliciotti shows the moment...

Nigerian officials on Thursday halted search efforts a day after a school building collapsed in Lagos with an unknown number of children inside. The death toll was eight and could rise. As some anguished families protested and sifted through the rubble for any sign of their children, National Emergency Management Agency official Ibrahim Farinloye said workers had reached the foundation...

Emergency crews sifted through debris as night fell on frantic efforts to rescue scores of school children and others feared trapped inside a three-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Nigeria’s densely populated commercial capital, Lagos. At least eight people were confirmed dead and 37 others were rescued alive. Anguished families crowded around the flattened remains of the building, which housed...

Emergency crews sifted through debris as night fell on frantic efforts to rescue scores of school children and others feared trapped inside a three-story building that collapsed Wednesday in Nigeria’s densely populated commercial capital, Lagos. At least eight people were confirmed dead and 37 others were rescued alive. Anguished families crowded around the flattened remains of the building, which housed...

A contractor hired at a cut-rate price to take down a building was sentenced Friday to 15 to 30 years in prison for its collapse, which killed six people and injured 13 others and led Philadelphia to adopt new rules for demolitions.