Rescuers search for survivors in KZN shopping mall rubble

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 Rescue workers were sifting through the rubble at the shopping mall in Tongaat, north of Durban, on Tuesday night after one person
died and 29 were injured -- two of them critically -- when a concrete slab collapsed.

It was initially reported that 50 more people were feared trapped, but the site foreman told rescue workers they may have
already left for home before the slab collapsed.

Sniffer dogs were used to comb the scene for survivors and spotlights were erected to light up the area about as big as a soccer field.

Paramedic Neil Powell said most of the injured had broken bones and crush injuries.