India building collapse kills 4

A building under construction collapsed Wednesday in northern India killing at least four labourers, an administrative official said, in the latest deadly accident to highlight shoddy construction standards in the country. Workers were placing a concrete slab on the top floor of the seven-storey residential building in Uttar Pradesh state's Kanpur district when it came crashing down.
"Four labourers have been killed in the collapse and 17 have been rushed to a hospital with injuries," the area's top administrative official, Kaushal Raj, told AFP by telephone.