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Six killed in wall collapse near Hyderabad

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: An unusual heavy downpour late on Friday night led to the collapse of a compound wall killing six persons, including two girls, at Pahadi Sharif on the city fringes.

All the victims and seven other injured persons, hailing from interior villages of Nalgonda district, were engaged by a contractor for laying telephone cables. Some 25 families of such labourers had erected temporary huts in the open land abutting the seven-feet-high compound wall.

"After the backbreaking digging work, we slept early as usual only to wake up to the cloudburst with deafening thunders a little before midnight," said Durgamma, whose granddaughter Venkatramanamma, 12, died on the spot.

While the winds began to shake the huts, the midnight shower of hailstones made it difficult for the labourers to immediately shift to a safer place.

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