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At Least Two Dead, Dozens of Army Personnel Feared Trapped as Building Collapses in India

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The building was a guest house where army personnel were having lunch at the time of the collapse. A search and rescue operation is currently underway, local media reports say.

At least two people have been killed and about 30 others trapped after a building collapsed in Kumarhatti near Solan in India's Himachal Pradesh earlier on Sunday, the country's media have reported. 

According to India Today, the wife of the guest house's owner is among those killed in the incident. The other victim is an army man.   

Twenty-six people have been rescued from the collapsed building, however, still some people are feared to be trapped under the debris, local officials say as quoted by India Express

​The area where the incident happened was recently hit by heavy rain. 

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