Building collapses in Colombia, 11 missing

Rescuers are searching for 11 people missing after a high-rise building collapse in Medellin, Colombia.

Rescue workers look at the remains of a building that collapsed

Rescuers are searching for 11 people missing after a high-rise building collapse in Colombia. (AAP)

Rescuers are searching for 11 people missing in the collapse of a high-rise building in northwestern Colombia.

Medellin disaster preparedness chief Jaime Enrique Gomez says he still holds out hope of finding all alive following the Saturday night collapse.

He says some 150 people were working on Sunday in rescue efforts in one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city.

Gomez says officials detected a risk in the 22-storey apartment building on Friday and recommended it be evacuated, preventing a greater disaster.


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