Eleven people were confirmed dead on Thursday three days after a building under construction in southern India caved in, officials said.
NEW DELHI: Eleven people were confirmed dead on Thursday three days after a building under construction in southern India caved in, officials said.
Fifty-three people have been rescued from the rubble of the five-storey building in Dharwad district, but three more bodies were pulled out on Thursday. Heavy earth-movers and rescuers with specialised equipment and sniffer dogs were deployed in the increasingly desperate operation.The victims were mostly from northern Indian states who came to the region for work.
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