Soldiers and rescuers in Lahore were carefully cutting through steel and using cranes to lift the debris of the building in a bid to find people still alive, with children.
Medics had to amputate one man’s leg on the site before rushing him to hospital.
“One of his legs was trapped in such a way that it was not possible to retrieve him with both legs,” an official who did not want to be named said. “We had no other option.”
One worker still trapped in the rubble told Samaa TV early yesterday that he is pinned under a girder, but alive and feeling thirsty.