Building collapse toll touches 17

Team Udayavani, Mar 23, 2019, 6:31 AM IST

Dharwad: The toll in the building collapse at Dharward rose to 17 on Saturday even as four people were rescued from the debris, police said.

The four included a couple, both aged between 35 and 40 years, another man in his twenties and a 40-year-old woman, they said.

The total number of those rescued now stood at 72, police said.

The four-storeyed under construction building collapsed Tuesday, March 19 evening at Kumareshwaranagar in the heart of Dharwad, about 400 km from here.

Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday had ordered a magisterial inquiry into the building collapse.

Police have also arrested the building’s design engineer Vivek Pawar.

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