The death toll in the collapse of an under-construction 11-storey building near Chennai’s Porur suburbs rose to 17 even as one person was pulled out alive with head injuries this morning.
CHENNAI BUILDING MISHAP: TOLL REACHES 17, ONE RESCUED ALIVE
Rescue operations are still on in full swing even though there were intermittent rains.
Meanwhile, a woman was pulled out alive this morning from under the debris of the collapsed structure.Meenammal of Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh was admitted to Sri Ramachandra Medical University with a head injury.
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The building had collapsed on Saturday evening, with about 50 people feared trapped inside. Six persons, including two owners and two engineers, had been arrested under various sections of the IPC.
