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Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad
Five bodies were retrieved and over 12 persons rescued from the debris of a collapsed building at Karepalli village in Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday morning.
Rescue work is on to locate more bodies and survivors.
Khammam District Collector A Giridhar has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident.
The Yellandu police have also registered a case against the building's owner.
The collapsed building was a part of the Sri Raja Rajeshwari Engineering College campus.
Giridhar said the cause of the collapse was being investigated. However, it was apparent that site supervision was defective, he added.
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