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Wall collapses on a bar in India, 27 killed

23 May 2007 18:23:01 GMT
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CHENNAI, India, May 23 (Reuters) - A boundary wall for a planned factory collapsed on an adjacent bar in southern India on Wednesday, killing 27 people and injuring five, police said.

The wall came down on a crowded state-run bar in the town of Tirupur, some 500 km (310 miles) southwest of Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state, in the evening during heavy rain.

"Most of those killed were labourers," Deputy Inspector General of Police M.L. Manjunath said.

Accidents at construction sites as well as building collapses occur regularly in India, where enforcement of building and construction regulations is sometimes poor, leads to scores of deaths each year.

In February, 19 people were killed near Mumbai when a wall of a warehouse under construction collapsed. A month earlier, a school residence came down in the western state of Gujarat, killing 11 girls and injuring more than a dozen.

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