Seven kids die in India wall collapse
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Seven kids die in India wall collapse
August 25, 2010 - 1:09AM
AFP
At least seven children have been killed by a school wall collapse in torrential rains, police say.
Officials said that about a dozen more were hurt when the school boundary wall fell down in Jharkhand state's industrial town of Dhanbad.
"Bodies of seven children have so far been recovered," Dhanbad police chief Suman Gupta told AFP.
"One or two bodies could be still in the rubble," she said by telephone from Dhanbad.
The officer said the victims were not enrolled as students in the privately-run school, but were neighbourhood children who were playing beneath the five-metre high wall when it fell following the downpour.
Tuesday's accident came six days after 18 children died when their single-storey school collapsed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand under the weight of monsoon rains.
Heavy rains have ravaged parts of Asia over the last month, killing thousands in China and affecting millions in Pakistan, where floods have caused the nation's worst natural disaster.
Floods after a downpour on August 6 in the northern Indian region of Ladakh killed at least 189 people and left hundreds more missing.
Seven kids die in India wall collapse
August 25, 2010 - 1:09AM
AFP
At least seven children have been killed by a school wall collapse in torrential rains, police say.
Officials said that about a dozen more were hurt when the school boundary wall fell down in Jharkhand state's industrial town of Dhanbad.
"Bodies of seven children have so far been recovered," Dhanbad police chief Suman Gupta told AFP.
"One or two bodies could be still in the rubble," she said by telephone from Dhanbad.
The officer said the victims were not enrolled as students in the privately-run school, but were neighbourhood children who were playing beneath the five-metre high wall when it fell following the downpour.
Tuesday's accident came six days after 18 children died when their single-storey school collapsed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand under the weight of monsoon rains.
Heavy rains have ravaged parts of Asia over the last month, killing thousands in China and affecting millions in Pakistan, where floods have caused the nation's worst natural disaster.
Floods after a downpour on August 6 in the northern Indian region of Ladakh killed at least 189 people and left hundreds more missing.
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