At least 18 children were buried alive when the building of a school caved in following incessant rain in Uttarakhand's Kapkot town on Wednesday.
Classes were going at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir school in Kapkot, in Bageshwar district in the Himalayan state, when the tragedy occurred.
Text: IANS
Image: Locals stand next to the body of a child after the roof of a primary school building collapsed in Kapkot area in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district on Wednesday, August 18, 2010. (Photographs copyright PTI)
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