Rescuers in Sierra Leone are continuing to search for more survivors after a seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Freetown, killing at least eight people. The West African country's National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) said six people had been rescued from the rubble on Shell New Road so far,

Sierra Leone's Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh said Tuesday the death toll from a seven-storey building collapse in the capital a day earlier had risen to at least nine, as rescuers searched for survivors.