BEIJING — Three people were killed and one injured after a structural collapse at a fitness club in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, local officials said on Tuesday (Nov 7). Government officials and state media said seven people were in the Yuecheng Fitness Gymnasium in Jiamusi city, Huanan County, when it collapsed late on Monday.
A China's flag flutters near people lining up to get tested at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Beijing, China May 18, 2022.BEIJING — Three people were killed and one injured after a structural collapse at a fitness club in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, local officials said on Tuesday .
Video images on social media showed a concrete structure caved in and covered by snowfall. Another video from The Paper, a Shanghai government-run media outlet, showed a woman running toward the collapsed area while crying and shouting "my son is still inside". It was not immediately known what caused the collapse, but the country's northernmost province was slammed by harsh cold and blizzard weather throughout Monday that wreaked havoc on public transportation and closed schools.