Rescue workers searching for signs of life at a four-story building that collapsed in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, ended their operation yesterday, having found no new survivors.

Rescue workers searching for signs of life at a four-story building that collapsed in Islam’s holiest city ended their operation today, having found no new survivors.

Rescue workers still hoped to find survivors from a four-story building that collapsed in Islam’s holiest city, killing at least 53 people and marring the start of the annual gathering of millions of pilgrims.

Rescue workers today still hoped to find survivors from an eight-storey hostel building that collapsed in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 27 people and marring the start of the annual gathering of millions of pilgrims.