Nine die in hotel collapse in central India (UPDATED)

Nine people died when a four-storey hotel collapsed late Saturday in Indore, a city in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, Xinhua reported citing The Asian Age. Rescuers working through the night with sledgehammers and chain saws pulled alive 10 people from the debris of the building, which came crashing down Saturday night in Indore, a city in Madhya Pradesh state, said police officer Sanju Kamle. Ten people were rescued and rushed to hospitals, while more people were feared trapped under the debris of the hotel, the report said. Ten people have been killed and two others injured after a hotel collapsed near a bus station in the central Indian city of Indore.Local officials told the Times of India that the collapse happened after a car rammed into the building at around 9:20pm local time on Saturday night, trapping at least 20 people under the rubble. The building is a three-storey hotel-cum-lodge, located near the Sarvate Bus Stand in a congested commercial area. Some 30 people perished in September last year when a 117-year-old apartment building collapsed in India's financial hub of Mumbai.
A hotel collapses in Indore, India, killing at least 10 people.