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Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in India

Published 11-05-2017, 11:17 am
Updated 11-05-2017, 11:20 am
Wall collapse kills 23 during wedding celebration in India

NEW DELHI, May 11 (Reuters) - Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured in India when a wall collapsed on a crowd of people celebrating a wedding, police said on Thursday.

The 12-foot (3.6-metre) high wall collapsed late on Wednesday because of heavy rain, crashing down on the wedding party during dinner in a marriage hall in the western state of Rajasthan, police official Bharat Lal Meena said.

Five children were among the dead, Meena said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a Twitter post he was pained by the accident. Weddings are elaborate affairs in India with even people of modest income inviting large numbers of guests to receptions, often in purpose-built halls.

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