Thursday 11 May 2017

Wall collapses, kills 23 during wedding celebration


Police on Thursday said twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in India when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding.

Police official Bharat Meena said that the 12-foot high wall collapsed late on Wednesday because of heavy rain, crashing down on the wedding party during dinner in a marriage hall in the western state of Rajasthan.

Meena added that five children were among the dead.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a Twitter post he was pained by the accident.

Weddings are elaborate affairs in India with even people of modest income inviting large numbers of guests to receptions, often in purpose-built halls.

(Reuters/NAN)

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