World | China Mom, Son Found Alive in Rubble of Quarantine Hotel Death toll rises to 18 in China building collapse By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Mar 10, 2020 11:50 PM CDT Updated Mar 11, 2020 12:07 AM CDT Copied In this March 8, 2020, photo, rescuers pull a young child out from the rubble of a collapsed hotel on a stretcher in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. (Chinatopix Via AP) A 10-year-old boy and his mother have been rescued 52 hours after being trapped in the collapse of a virus quarantine site in southeastern China. Video released by rescuers showed the two being pulled from the debris of the hotel that collapsed on Saturday. The location of the boy and woman was discovered late Monday night and they were freed around midnight after three hours of painstaking digging. The hotel in the city of Quanzhou had been a quarantine site for people exposed to the new coronavirus. The death toll in the collapse rose to 18 on Tuesday, with 12 people missing. A total of 71 people had been inside the hotel when it crumbled in mere seconds, the AP reports. The cause is still under investigation, although structural work being done on the lower level is suspected. Most parts of China are quarantining people from high-risk areas, or even those who traveled abroad or simply outside their home regions areas, for 14 days. Read These Next Actor Sam Rockwell gets residuals from movie he wasn't in. Mid Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. Cops: Arizona 5th graders drew up plot to 'end' a classmate. Report an error