Israel Army rescue squads today continued working in an attempt to reach 25 persons still missing in the debris of a four-story building which collapsed last night in Jaffa. Rescue workers have already unearthed 13 bodies. In addition, 20 occupants of the building were injured as were 15 rescue workers.
The squads of rescue workers are using sound detection equipment in their efforts to uncover the missing. The cause of the collapse, which occupants of an adjoining building said, “sounded like an earthquake,” is still not known and rescue work is expected to take another day. Most of the tenants were believed to be new immigrants from Rumania and Hungary.
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