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Death toll in India blast rises to 43 AHMEDABAD, India, Monday (Reuters) The death toll in a gas cylinder explosion that brought down three buildings in western India rose to 43, as rescuers working through the night pulled out more dead bodies, police said on Monday. Police and firemen were still clearing the rubble, looking for people feared trapped under the debris, they said. "Rescue operations are continuing. We haven't given up hope of finding survivors," G.A. Shaikh, a senior police official, told Reuters by telephone from Surat, 250 km (155 miles) south of Ahmedabad, the main city of Gujarat state. The explosion early on Sunday flattened three residential buildings in Surat, which processes nearly 90 percent of India's $8 billion annual diamond exports. Police said the death toll had risen sharply because several workers from a diamond processing factory on the ground floor of the 30-year-old building were sleeping during the explosion. Thirty-eight people were injured when the buildings collapsed, some of them critically, the official said. |
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