45 dead as water tank colapses
At least 45 spectators at a wrestling match were killed today when a water tank they were sitting on collapsed at a village fair in western India.
About 200 people had climbed on top the tank to watch the wrestling competition when the decades-old structure gave way in Rajasthan state’s Bharatpur district.
R Venkateshwaran, the district’s top administrative official, said at least 30 other people, standing under and near the water-filled concrete tank, were injured as it came crashing down.
No other details were immediately available.
Village fairs are popular in rural India. Thousands of people from surrounding districts attend such events, where mud wrestling, cockfights and theatre performances are the main attractions.
