(MENAFN) A senior government official declared that the fatality number of under-construction building collapse in India's southern state of Karnataka has increased to four, with over 30 to 40 people still buried under the debris.
Prakash Bssannavar, a Karnataka government official involved in relief and rescue work, confirmed that the rescue operation is ongoing to pull out those buried.
He added: "We have rescued at least 53 people so far. We fear at least 30 to 40 persons are still trapped under the debris."
"A 35-member National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team from Bengaluru joined the rescue operations on Tuesday. Another 73-member NDRF team from Gaziabad arrived in Bengaluru on Wednesday to step up the rescue operations," according to Bssannavar.
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