Traps dozen more
Rescue workers use a stretcher to carry a victim across the rubble after the collapse of two residential buildings in Vadodra city, located in the western Indian state of Gujarat Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Police say eight people have died and others were hurt in the collapse of adjacent three-story apartment buildings in western India.
Local police officer Bhanu Pratap Parmar said one building collapsed early Wednesday and the other fell half an hour later in Vadodara, a city in Gujarat state.
Parmar says rescuers were working to pull out at least a dozen people trapped in the debris.
Most of the occupants of the 14 apartments in the first building were sleeping when it collapsed. The adjacent housing block was evacuated minutes before it collapsed.
Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using substandard materials, and as multistory structures are built with inadequate supervision.
Source: The Daily Star
