Families killed as they slept after wall collapses on homes in Pune, India

A 23-metre (60-foot) high wall collapsed on a cluster of tin-roofed huts in western India early on Saturday following heavy rains, killing at least 16 workers and their families living there, including three children.

The wall dividing the car park area of a multi-storey block of flats collapsed in Pune, a city in Maharashtra state, fire officer J. Gaekwad said.

Rescuers pulled three workers from the rubble alive, he said. The operation was continuing as more people could be trapped under the debris.

The workers were employed at a nearby building site.

The families were sleeping in the huts when the building wall collapsed, an official said.