Ghana: Accra shopping mall collapse a 'national disaster'

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Dozens of shoppers have been rescued after a department store collapsed in the Ghanaian capital Accra.

Around 40 people have been pulled out alive by rescue workers but at least four people who were inside the multi-storey Melcom store have died.

Richard Hamilton reports.

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