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India factory collapse 'traps many'

16.04.2012 [12:37]
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Baku, April 16 (AZERTAC). Several people are feared trapped under the debris of a blanket factory which collapsed in the Indian city of Jalandhar late on Sunday night.

Emergency workers searched through the debris and more than 60 people have been rescued so far, police said.

About 90 people were working in the factory at the time of the collapse, a senior police officer said.

The incident took place at around midnight on Sunday in the northern state of Punjab.

Fire brigade personnel and army soldiers have joined the rescue operation.

"We have rescued about 60 to 70 people so far. The rescued workers tell us that at least 20 people are still trapped under the debris, some with smashed bones. The rescue effort is on in full swing," AFP quoted Jalandhar's deputy commissioner of police, Tulsi Ram, as saying.

It is not yet known what caused the collapse, but one eyewitness told the CNN-IBN channel that it was caused by a boiler explosion.

In November 2010, at least 67 people died and 100 were injured in a five-storey building collapse in the Indian capital, Delhi.

That disaster was blamed on shoddy construction, extra storeys allegedly being added illegally to the structure and water seepage from the nearby Yamuna river.

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