Officers questioned four Chinese men who were found removing 32 files from containers behind the collapsed building, a police official said.

This is the terrifying moment onlookers fled during an earthquake, stopping only to record the collapse of a Chinese high-rise building. Footage shows panicked locals running as tremors from a magnitude 7.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, flattening skyscrapers and leaving more than 1,000 people dead from Myanmar to Thailand.