Building collapse toll in Indian capital reaches 70

NEW DELHI. November 19. KAZINFORM The death toll in the Indian capital's building collapse incident on Monday reached 70, with the recovery of one more body from the debris of the collapsed five-storyed house on Thursday, a police official said; Kazinform refers to China Daily.

"The body of a 25-year-old has been pulled out of the rubbles this morning. The death toll in the building collapse tragedy in Lalita Park area of Laxmi Nagar in the east of the national capital is now 70," the official said.

Meanwhile, the Delhi government Wednesday ordered a judicial probe into the incident. Former Delhi High Court Judge Lokeshwar Prashad will conduct the probe within 90 days.

"The probe will fix responsibility, both individual and institutional, for the collapse of the building and indicate the measures required to improve the responses and prevent such incidents in future," a statement said.

The building that collapsed on Monday housed mostly poor migrant families, working as laborers, from the eastern Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal.