1 dead, 7 injured, 10 missing in E China hotel collapse

At least one person is dead and 10 people are unaccounted for after a hotel collapsed in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, on Monday afternoon.

As of 6:40 pm, three people had been sent to a hospital for treatment and four others remained in stable condition after they were rescued from the debris, according to Suzhou government's WeChat account.

Wu Zhenglong, provincial governor of Jiangsu, and some major leaders of the province and Suzhou have hurried to the site to organize rescue work.

There is no information about what may have caused the building, which is in Suzhou's Wujiang district, to collapse. An investigation into the accident has been launched.