Search and rescue night-shift crew get to work (Luke Daniel/News24)
As the clock ticks down on a rescue operation to save 44 people from a collapsed construction site in George, rescuers continue to search for survivors.
One rescue worker, who requested that his identity be withheld because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said he had never worked on a structural collapse in which so many people had survived.
He arrived on the site three hours after the building collapsed.
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