At least 15 dead as construction site wall collapses in western India


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  • Saturday, 29 Jun 2019

Rescue workers carry the body of a victim at the site of a collapsed wall of a residential complex in Pune, India, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

MUMBAI (Reuters) - At least 15 people were killed, including three children, when a compound wall near a construction site fell on temporary huts of labourers in the western Indian city of Pune following heavy rain, a fire brigade official said on Saturday.

Families of construction labourers were sleeping in the huts when the building wall collapsed in the early morning, he said.

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