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Heavy Monsoon Kills 11 soldiers in India

MUMBAI: Fourteen people were killed when a building collapsed in northern India following heavy monsoon rain which has left more than 100 dead across South Asia, officials said Monday.

Rescuers were looking for two to three people still unaccounted after Sunday’s collapse, said Gaurav Srivastav, an official from the National Disaster Response Force, or NDRF.

A statement from the state Chief Minister’s office said 14 people had died, all but one of whom were soldiers. Fire official Raja Ram Bhagat said the soldiers were having a party in a ground floor restaurant in the building when it collapsed.Several soldiers were among the 31 people rescued after the collapse occurred in Solan, a town in Himachal Pradesh state. The area is 310 kilometres (195 miles) north of New Delhi.