Mecca hotel collapse death toll at 76

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 Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, ended their operation yesterday, having found no new survivors.

The Saudi Interior Ministry revised the death toll from Thursday’s collapse to 76, with 62 injured. Earlier the ministry said 53 people had died. The nationalities of the victims have not been released.

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