Many feared killed and dozens more are trapped after a multi-storey building belonging to a member of the Shia Khoja community has collapsed adjacent to the Mosque in the centre of the Tanzanian city, Dar es Salaam.
Thirteen people have been pulled out of the ruins alive, officials say.
Some 45 people, including construction workers, residents and children from a Shia school, are missing.
“I thought there was an earthquake and then I heard screaming. The whole building fell on itself,” eyewitness Musa Mohamed told the AFP news agency.
Mohamed said the building, located in the city’s business district, collapsed around 8:45 am (0545 GMT).
Dozens of people were reportedly working in and around the building at the time, but their exact number was not immediately known.
A local said that up to 60 people, including workers, food vendors and playing children could have been around the area at the moment of the collapse.
Reporter says a huge crane is pulling out a mass of iron bars to get access to the centre of the building, where some people are thought to be still alive.
Trapped victims are said to have been making phone calls to friends and relatives.
He says there are large crowds of onlookers, as well as rescue workers and armed police officers at the scene.
The collapsed building was near a mosque, as well as other residential and commercial properties in central Dar es Salaam and is said to have been 16 floors.
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