Death toll rises to 14 in China shoe factory collapse

The death toll has risen to 14 in the collapse of a shoe factory in China's eastern Zhejiang Province which left 33 others injured, authorities said today.
More than 50 workers were inside the factory in Folong Village, Wenling City when the building collapsed on Saturday afternoon, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Thirty-three people suffered injuries, four of them severely, it said.
Nine others escaped and two were listed missing.
Nine persons died in the hospital, while three bodies were retrieved from the ruins yesterday, the report said.
Local authorities have dispatched 53 firefighting trucks, 302 rescuers and five sniffer dogs.

Three bodies were extracted from the rubble yesterday and two more today.
The cause of the accident was being probed.