Restaurant in Northern China Collapses During Birthday Party, Killing 29

Restaurant in Northern China Collapses During Birthday Party, Killing 29
The site of a collapsed two-story restaurant in Xiangfen County of Linfen City, northern China's Shanxi Province on Aug. 29, 2020. Yang Chenguang/Xinhua via AP
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BEIJING—A two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village collapsed during a local resident’s 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead, authorities said Sunday.

The Ministry of Emergency Management said another 28 people were injured, seven of them seriously, when the building suddenly crumbled on Saturday.