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Civil Protection officers wait for a treacherous area of rubble to be gently cleared by a mechanical shovel during a search and rescue operation where an apartment block collapsed leaving two women, one Maltese and one Russian, dead in the village of St Paul's Bay in the north of Malta early June 4, 2004. The building collapsed because of excavation works taking place on a site adjacent to it. ..MALTA OUT..REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

