Tehran high-rise collapses

An Iranian firefighter works at the scene of the Plasco building, which was engulfed by a fire and collapsed in Tehran.

Iranian firefighters remove debris of the Plasco building, which was engulfed by a fire and collapsed in Tehran.

Rescue workers and firefighters work at the site of the collapsed Plasco building in Tehran.

Emergency personnel search for victims in the wreckage of the 15-storey Plasco building in Tehran.

Rescue workers help an injured man in front of the collapsed Plasco building in Tehran.

Rescue workers and firefighters work at the site of the collapsed Plasco building in Tehran.

Iranian firefighters remove debris of the Plasco building, which was engulfed by a fire and collapsed in Tehran.

Iranian firefighters remove debris of the Plasco building, which was engulfed by a fire and collapsed in Tehran.

Smoke rises from the mangled remains of a historic high-rise that collapsed in a fire in Iran’s capital Tehran.

Iranian firefighters attempt to control the fire at the Plasco Building in Tehran.

Iranian firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire on the top floors of the Plasco Building in central Tehran.

A rescue worker searches for survivors in the rubble of the collapsed iconic Plasco Building in Tehran, Iran.

Rescue workers gather in the rubble of the collapsed iconic Plasco Building in Tehran, Iran.

Iranian firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire at the Plasco Building in central Tehran.

Flames and smoke billow from the top floors of Tehran’s historic Plasco Building before it collapsed.

Firefighters battle the blaze at the Plasco building in downtown Tehran.

Firefighters tend to an injured colleague at the Plasco building in downtown Tehran.

Rescue workers gather in front of the collapsed Plasco building in Tehran.

Iranians watch the Plasco building engulfed by flames in central Tehran.