SAO PAULO, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Three workers were killed and three other people survived after a four-story residential building collapsed in Salvador, capital of Brazil's eastern state of Bahia, the fire department said Sunday.

Firefighters recovered the body of the third victim from the rubble early Sunday in the Luis Anselmo neighborhood, where the building collapsed on Saturday.

Authorities said a family -- a man, his wife and their 18-month-old baby, was inside the building at the time, along with three workers carrying out renovations.

The family managed to escape before the collapse. The woman was taken to a hospital and is out of danger, while the man and the baby were unharmed.

Officials said the three workers renovating the building were killed in the collapse.

Salvador's civil defense agency said that once search and rescue operations were completed, authorities would begin assessing the structure and investigating the cause of the collapse. ■