Buildings collapse after subsidence in Guangzhou

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At least three buildings collapsed on Monday afternoon after subsidence in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province.

Three buildings collapse on Monday afternoon at a road junction in downtown Guangzhou. 

At around 4:40 p.m., subsidence occurred at a road junction in the Liwan district of downtown Guangzhou. About three neighboring shop buildings collapsed successively, said rescuers.

There are no casualties from the incident, which was near a metro tunnel construction site, said Guangzhou Metro Corporation on its official Sina-Weibo account, China's version of Twitter.

At 4:20 p.m., metro builders found land subsiding near the project site and helped evacuate the area. Afterwards, the ground sank and buildings collapsed, Guangzhou Metro said.

As of 8 p.m., rescuers adopted risk-prevention methods by backfilling concrete into the subsidence area. Monitoring statistics show that there is no further risk and the accident site is stable, it said.

According to a witness, surnamed Xu, some trees fell down at about 4:30 p.m.. Two two-story neighboring shop buildings then collapsed with ground subsidence nearby.

Around 6:30 p.m., a shop building of five or six stories collapsed, Xu added.

The cause of the incident is being investigated.

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