India’s building collapse death toll rises to 49

Published July 2, 2014 6:42pm ET



NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers in India pulled another 20 bodies from the ruins of a collapsed building, bringing to 49 the death toll since the weekend with slim chances of finding more survivors, police said Wednesday.

Twenty-seven people have been rescued so far, including seven on Tuesday, from under the enormous heap of broken slabs, twisted iron girders and concrete dust in a suburb of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state.

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