Five-storey building collapses in India

Published Nov 16, 2010

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Rescuers hammered slabs of concrete and dug with their hands on Tuesday to pull survivors and bodies from a five-storey apartment building that collapsed into a mountain of rubble in a poor New Delhi neighbourhood. At least 65 people were killed and scores injured.

The 15-year-old building housing hundreds of people - mostly migrant workers and their families - collapsed in New Delhi's congested Lalita Park area, where emergency efforts were hampered because vehicles had difficulty navigating its narrow alleyways.

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