The World - News from Aug. 14, 1987
An apartment building under construction in the northern Brazilian city of Belem collapsed, and police said at least 20 workers were killed. About 40 laborers were working on the 13-story building when it collapsed, and 17 survivors were pulled from the rubble, Police Chief Marcos Costa said. Cries of help could be heard from workers trapped beneath the tons of steel and concrete, and hospital teams worked to get oxygen to them, officials said. Belem, a city of about 1 million, is about 2,300 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
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