Building collapse kills 19 in India
Source: Reuters
(Updates death toll, adds search called off) MUMBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed when a wall of a warehouse under construction collapsed near India's financial capital on Saturday, police said. "We have recovered 15 bodies. Five or six more people can be under the rubble," said Ram Rao Wagh, police commissioner in the satellite city of Navi Mumbai on the northern outskirts of Mumbai. He later told Reuters that four more bodies had been recovered and three injured people had been taken to hospital, adding that all the victims were labourers. The search had been called off since all the missing had been accounted for, Wagh said. Building collapses are common in India, especially during the monsoon rains, mainly as a result of poor maintenance and sometimes because of shoddy materials used by contractors.
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