Monitoring Desk
NEW DELHI: At least ten people have died after a car crashed into a dilapidated building in Indore city of India and brought down the old building on Saturday evening.
Indian police told that the incident occurred in Indore on Saturday evening and it is the latest building disaster in a country infamous for poor construction and building collapse incidents.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Harinarayanchari Mishra told Indian media that the driver lost control of his vehicle and struck a pillar holding up the near 100-year-old structure and adding that the impact was such that the entire building collapsed.
Police officer told that the rescue workers pulled out 12 people from the rubble and 10 of them were already dead. The injured were shifted to hospital.
Similarly, some 30 people perished in September last year when a 117-year-old apartment building collapsed in India´s financial hub of Mumbai.
And in 2013, 60 people were killed when a residential block came crashing down in one of the country´s worst housing disasters.
