Palanpur: Three persons, including a woman and her toddler son, were killed and five others injured when a wall collapsed on them in Banaskantha district in Gujarat on Monday, police said.
The incident took place in Sejalpura village when the wall of a dilapidated house came crashing on the victims, all hailing from Rajasthan, they said.
The wall of the unoccupied house collapsed on a group of labourers and their family members when they were carrying out digging work for the plinth of a new house being constructed in its vicinity, a Palanpur rural police station official said.
Three persons, Sitaben Vasaiya (38) her son Raju (3), and a five-year-old child, Rahul Vasaiya, were declared dead at the Palanpur civil hospital where they were rushed along with those injured, police sub-inspector B R Patel said.