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Three members of family killed in Gujarat building collapse

A 65-year-old woman and her two granddaughters were killed after a three-storey building collapsed at Gagwani Fali locality in Jam Khambhalia town in Gujarat's Devbhumi Dwarka district on Tuesday evening amid heavy rainfall in the Saurashtra region

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Five people were also rescued from the collapse site by the locals. Pic/PTI

Five people were also rescued from the collapse site by the locals. Pic/PTI

A 65-year-old woman and her two granddaughters died after a three-story building collapsed at Gagwani Fali locality in Jam Khambhalia town in Gujarat's Devbhumi Dwarka district on Tuesday evening amid heavy rainfall in the Saurashtra region. 

The bodies of the three victims – Kesharben Kanjaria, Pritiben Kanjaria (15), and Payalben Kanjaria (18) – were brought out of the debris by midnight after a six-hour-long rescue operation by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), police and the fire department teams, PTI reported. The police on Wednesday said that the bodies have been sent to a government hospital for post-mortem. Five people were also rescued from the collapse site by the locals.

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