AP: Building caves in; many feared trapped

HYDERABAD: Several people were feared trapped under a five-storied building that caved-in at Lakshminarayana Nagar in the coastal town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh this evening, police said."Two floors of the building caved-in and several people are believed to have been trapped under the debris. Three children and one woman have been rescued so far," East Godavari district Superintendent of Police Thrivikram Varma told PTI over phone.A full-scale rescue and search operation was underway.Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy directed the East Godavari Collector M Ravichandra to call in NDRF personnel from Vijayawada and Naval Team from Visakhapatnam to assist in the rescue operation.A senior police officer told PTI that 10 persons, most of them children, were rescued.At least four more were feared to have been trapped and efforts were on to rescue them, he said.Asked about cause of collapse, he said the building was constructed about ten years ago, and apartment occupants had complained about the poor quality of construction.About fifty families live in the building.