(31 Aug 2006)
1. Pan from collapsed building to rubble on ground
2. Mid of local men onlooking
3. Men searching through rubble
4. Various of Pakistani soldiers clearing rubble by hand
5. Wide shot looking up hillside, collapsed building and rescuers
6. Various, soldiers clearing rubble by hand
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Saud Aziz, Senior police official:
"There are seven floors under which people who were residing here are buried down. There is only one contact with a lady, with a mobile phone, and she is constantly in touch with us, she is alive. Reportedly nine to 15 people are inside the building and contact with the others is not possible at the moment."
8. Wide of collapsed roof
9. More of soldiers searching rubble
STORYLINE:
An earthquake-damaged apartment building collapsed in a mountain resort area near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Thursday, police said.
Rescue workers pulled one survivor from the rubble, but others were feared trapped.
The seven-storey building, which had been previously ordered to be demolished, collapsed in the central area of the town of Muree at 3
am (2200 GMT on Wednesday), a local government official said.
Soldiers pulled the daughter of the building's owner, out alive after hours of searching, said senior police official Saud Aziz.
He said she was in a stable condition and had been taken to a military hospital for treatment.
The woman spoke to rescue workers on her mobile phone, guiding them to her location under piles of bricks, concrete and twisted corrugated roofing iron, Aziz said.
"Reportedly nine to 15 people are inside the building and contact with the others is not possible at the moment," Aziz added.
Another survivor was later reported to have been rescued.
At least two other people had been contacting police by mobile phone and at least five people were believed to be inside the building when it collapsed, according to local government officials.
Among those trapped include the building's owner, his wife and at least one son.
The local government said the building had suffered structural damage in Pakistan's devastating magnitude 7.6 earthquake on October 8 that killed more than 80-thousand people and left more than three (m) million homeless.
The building housed apartments the owner rented to visitors in the summertime, officials said. He stopped renting the apartments after the quake,
but his family continued to live in the building.
Building collapses, resulting from shoddy construction, earthquakes or heavy rain, are not uncommon in Pakistan.
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