11 killed in India building collapse
At least 11 people were killed and several more feared trapped when a four-storey apartment block collapsed yesterday in a city in western India, officials said.
The public housing block, located in the city of Vadodara, some 110 kilometres from Ahmedabad, caved in before dawn senior local government administrator Vinod Rao said.
Earlier, Rao said up to 20 people were in the building at the time of the collapse.
Last month, a two-storey hotel collapsed in the southern city of Secunderabad, killing 13 people and injuring 17 others. In April, another building collapse in Mumbai claimed the lives of 74 people.
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