Emergency personnel at the site where a building collapsed leaving 75 construction workers trapped in the rubble. (Supplied/Garden Route District Municipality)
The death toll in the collapse of a five-storey building under construction along Victoria Street in George has risen to two, with 53 people still trapped in the rubble.
George municipal spokesperson Chantel Edwards-Klose said the two workers were certified dead at the scene.
The building was next to the George municipality offices.
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