The collapse occurred in the city of Fengcheng, in the southeastern Chinese province of Jiangxi at around 7 a. m. local time on Thursday (23:00 GMT on Wednesday), the Fengcheng safety supervision bureau said.
#BREAKING: A collapsed cooling tower of a pwer plant, which is under construction, has claimed more than 40 lives in E China's Jiangxi pic.twitter.com/NfpTnan6sO
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) 24 ноября 2016 г.
It was earlier reported that 22 people were killed and two others were injured.