Rescuers pull last-remaining body from Gwangju apartment collapse site

Rescue personnel search for a missing worker among debris at a collapsed apartment building in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Tuesday. Yonhap

Rescue workers pulled the last-remaining body Tuesday from the rubble at last month's apartment collapse site in the southwestern city of Gwangju.

The body was retrieved from the 26th floor of the damaged apartment building in Gwangju, about 330 kilometers south of Seoul, as search operations entered the fourth week since the accident, which left six people died.

The exterior walls of the 39-story building under construction in the city crumbled on Jan 11.

After the initial collapse, the building further disintegrated and a concrete structure tumbled down, raising safety concerns for rescue workers and nearby residents. (Yonhap)