Building collapse in India’s Lucknow kills eight, injures dozens

The commercial building, which had been used by multiple small companies, including as a warehouse and as a vehicle workshop, collapsed on Saturday afternoon killing at least eight people [Screengrab/Reuters]

Indian rescue workers have pulled out eight bodies from the wreckage of a three-storey building in the northern city of Lucknow, reports said, with the state chief minister calling the deaths “heart breaking”.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency broadcast images of piles of concrete, and state rescue teams with heavy digging machines searching for bodies on Sunday.