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3 killed in wall collapse caused by heavy rain in central India

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Three persons were killed when the wall of a college collapsed Wednesday in the central Indian city of Indore in the state of Madhya Pradesh, said local media.

The dead were a woman and her two sons when the boundary wall of Indian Institute of Management Indore collapsed due to heavy rains and fell over an adjacent hut where the victims were staying, said Press Trust of India.

Heavy rains have caused flooding in some part of the state.

Over 30 people were killed when two trains derailed due to flash flood on a railway bridge in the same state at midnight Tuesday. Endi