At least two people have died and dozens are feared trapped under rubble after a building site collapsed Tuesday in India's southern Karnataka state, officials told AFP.
At least two people have died and dozens are feared trapped under rubble after a building site collapsed Tuesday in India’s southern Karnataka state, officials told AFP.
“Two people have been killed in the collapse and eight have been rescued so far. We have pressed in men and machines to rescue those trapped,” Srikant, the district’s regional fire and emergency officer, who gave just one name, told AFP. Nagesh D.L., the district’s deputy commissioner of police, said eight people had been recovered from the rubble so far “including dead and alive”.
Hospitals in the district have been placed on alert and 20 ambulances sent to the accident site, said Dharwad’s top medical officer Giridhar Kokinad.
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