NEW DELHI — Indian rescue workers pulled out eight bodies Sunday from the wreckage of a three-story building in the city of Lucknow, reports said, with the state minister calling the deaths 'heartbreaking.'
NEW DELHI — Indian rescue workers pulled out eight bodies Sunday from the wreckage of a three-story building in the city of Lucknow, reports said, with the state minister calling the deaths 'heartbreaking.'The Press Trust of India news agency broadcast images of piles of concrete, and state rescue teams with heavy digging machines searching for bodies.
It was not clear if there were others still trapped.The cause of the collapse is not known, but building and construction accidents are common during India's June-September monsoon season, with old and rickety structures buckling under days of nonstop rain.Akash Singh, who worked in the building, said a pillar had developed a crack.He had moved to the ground floor fearful it would worsen, with lashing monsoon rains battering the city.
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