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Building collapse kills nine in India

By our correspondents
December 11, 2016

NEW DELHI: Nine people died after an under-construction building collapsed in southern India but a four-year-old boy and his mother were pulled alive from the rubble, police said on Saturday. The seven-storey building where labourers and their families lived in the basement came crashing down late Thursday in Hyderabad, the state capital of Telangana.