House collapse kills 7 in Bangladesh capital

At least seven persons, including four of a family, were today killed as a two-storeyed tin-shed house built on a marshy land collapsed here.
Rescuers feared more bodies to be trapped inside the shanty-like structure in Rampura area that stood on bamboo poles on a water body with 28 people living in it, police said.
"Seven bodies were retrieved so far, four of them are members of a single family," a TV channel quoted rescuers as saying.
A salvage operation was underway since the house caved in this afternoon.
TV footage lower storey of the structure sucked in by the mud in the algae-filled water body.

"We have retrieved several people alive and sent them to hospitals for treatment," a fire service official said.