This photo shows the site of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian province, March 8, 2020. (LIN SHANCHUAN / XINHUA)

FUZHOU – The death toll has risen to 10 Sunday afternoon, a day after a hotel building collapsed in east China's Fujian province, according to the local authorities.

As of 4:00 pm Sunday, 48 people had been rescued and 23 others remain trapped.

The Xinjia Hotel collapsed at around 7:05 pm in Licheng District of the city of Quanzhou, trapping 71 people.

A preliminary investigation showed the hotel building was being decorated when the accident occurred and the owner of the building has been put under police control.

Construction of the building, with a floor area of 7,000 square meters, began in 2013. It was converted into a hotel in 2018 with 66 rooms.

Rescuers work at the accident site of a hotel in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian province, March 7, 2020. (STR / XINHUA)

A woman, center on the back, is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, in China's eastern Fujian province, March 7, 2020. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

Over 1,000 firefighters, police officers and medics have been dispatched to join the rescue work and the Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a work team to Quanzhou to help with the rescue efforts and investigate the cause of the accident.

Further rescue is underway.