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Lansdowne Building caves in, 4 killed

In one of the worst ‘heritage’ disasters the city has witnessed in the recent past, the landmark Lansdowne Building, located just behind the Mysore Palace, caved in on Saturday evening killing four pe

Six children killed in school roof collapse, inquiry ordered

Six students were on Friday killed and seven injured when roof of a private school collapsed in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh.

A portion of the roof of Ramanand Public High School in Jalilpur vil

Many feared trapped under debris in factory building collapse in Punjab

At least 250 people were feared trapped under the debris of a blanket factory building that collapsed in Focal Point area near here, police said.

The incident happened in the early hours of Monday.

Pak rescue workers pull out 65-year-old woman from debris

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Rescue workers today pulled out a 65-year-old woman who was trapped for 32 hours in the debris of a collapsed factory in this eastern Pakistani city and stepped up their search for more survivors unde

Six-storey building collapses in Beirut

At least 26 people were killed when an old six-storey building in the Lebanese capital collapsed, officials said on Monday, with more people still trapped under the rubble.

"Until now, 26 bodies have

12 killed, 28 feared trapped in Pak building collapse

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At least 12 people were killed and 28 others feared trapped under the debris and rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed in the congested Lyari area of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi.

One more body pulled out from rubble, toll rise to 70

One more body was pulled out from the debris of the collapsed building on Thursday morning taking the death toll to 70, even as the exercise to remove the rubble continued for the third day.

MCD asks for instant evacuation of 38 'dangerous' buildings

Waking up to the threat posed by unauthorised constructions after the tragedy in Laxmi Nagar, the MCD has asked the occupants of as many as 38 "dangerous" buildings in the east Delhi area to evacuate

Rains disrupt debris removal work at building collapse site

The debris removal operations at the east Delhi building collapse site was affected due to rains on Wednesday even as a cautious MCD asked occupants of 38 "dangerous" buildings in the locality to move

Delhi building collapse: 20 still buried under debris

Rescue operations continued on Wednesday at the site of the collapsed five-storey building in east Delhi to search for the 20 people still feared buried under the debris, officials said.

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