Death toll tops 50 in Chennai building collapse

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New Delhi, 06 Ramadan, 1435, 03 July, 2014, SPA - - More bodies were recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in India's southern city of Chennai, taking the death toll to 55 as rescue operations continued Thursday, dpa reported. The unfinished 11-storey building caved in on Saturday, trapping mostly construction workers. "Twelve more bodies were recovered in operations since Wednesday evening," said V Thankaraju, a government spokesman at the site. Five people including the building contractor have been arrested and charged with criminal negligence. --SPA 12:23 LOCAL TIME 09:23 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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