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Man pulled alive from rubble of collapsed Georgian building

MOSCOW (AP) — Rescue workers combing through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the Georgian city of Batumi have pulled out a man still alive more than a full day later. Nine people are known to have died when a section of the five-story building collapsed Friday in the country’s second-largest city. The owner of a ground floor apartment and two workers have been detained on suspicion that work in the apartment damaged a building wall and caused the collapse. The 37-year-old man who was extracted from the rubble on Saturday was reported to be seriously injured and placed on a respirator in the hospital. 

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