Six killed in house collapse in Gurgaon

Six persons were killed and eight injured when a three-storey building collapsed following a thunderstorm at village Basai in the district early this morning, police sources said.

Those killed included four members of the family - a couple and their minor children - hailing from Dhanaur village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, they said. A two-year-old boy miraculously escaped the collapse, the sources said adding that those injured had been rushed to the Gurgaon Civil Hospital.