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Building collapse in central India, 2 killed

Published:Friday | April 26, 2013 | 3:12 PM

NEW DELHI, India (AP):

Part of a hospital building collapsed in central India today after its roof came crashing down, injuring at least eight people, an official said.




More than a dozen people were rescued after being trapped in the rubble of the Kasturba Gandhi Hospital in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, State Minister Babu Lal Gaur said.



None of the injuries were serious.



The cause of the collapse was not immediately known.



The Press Trust of India news agency quoted local administrator Nikunj Shrivastava as saying that two people were killed in the building collapse.



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