Panchkula, Sept. 28 -- Six workers were killed as a three-storey under-construction building partially collapsed in Haryana's Ambala district, with rescue teams searching the debris through the night, officials said on Monday.
The building collapsed at Dhulkot village near Ambala City at around 3 pm on Sunday, when workers were casting a concrete roof slab on the third floor. The death toll, initially put at four, rose to six as rescuers recovered more bodies from the debris.
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police, fire services and district administration were deployed at the site. The search continued overnight as officials feared more workers could be trapped.
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