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At least 10 people are dead and 150 others feared trapped after a bridge collapsed in Kolkata. Julie Noce reports.
Search and rescue workers probe the site of a pedestrian bridge collapse in the Indian state of Gujarat on Tuesday. At least 137 people died after the bridge collapsed on Sunday evening, sending hundreds tumbling into the river. Nine people were arrested on Monday in connection with the disaster.
Images of rescue operations a day after at least 132 people died in India when a colonial-era pedestrian bridge packed with revellers collapsed into the river below, police said Monday. IMAGES
New Delhi, Sep 21 (EFE), (Camera: Divyakant Solanki).- At least eight people were killed and several feared trapped under the debris of a multi-floor building that collapsed in a suburb closed to India's commercial capital of Mumbai when its residents asleep before dawn on Monday, officials said.“There are eight dead. Nine people have been admitted in a hospital for various injuries. About two dozen were trapped under the debris some time ago,” an official at the district collector's office told EFE.The four-floor building on the outskirts of Mumbai was about a 30-year-old structure in Bhiwandi, a city in the Thane district of Maharashtra.Rescue teams were quickly dispatched to the area and television footage showed canines being used by the National Disaster Response Force to search for people trapped under the debris.FOOTAGE OF THE AREA WHERE THE BUILDING COLLAPSED.
At least 30 people are dead after a giant motorway bridge collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa in what the government are calling an "immense tragedy". IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).