SHIMLA (PTI) The toll in the guest house collapse in Fingask estate on rose to 45 with the extrication of bodies of all the family members of the owner of the guest house building in the northern Indian resort town of Shimla. With this, the deaths of all the six members of the family and the brother-in-law of the owner, Chaman Lal had been confirmed, The bodies of the owner Ashok Kumar, his wife Usha Rani and two children Deepak and Guddi were recovered while the bodies of two teenage daughters Renu and Puja were yet recovered, Three more bodies of a family from Udhampur were recovered last night raising the total number of bodies recovered so far to 22. All the bodies recovered after round-the-clock relief and rescue operations were badly mutilated.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 31, 1992