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Collapsed wall kills 22 in Mumbai monsoon chaos

Rescue workers use dogs to search for survivors at the site of a deadly wall collapse in a Mumbai slum, where scores of people were also injured. [AFP]

A wall collapsed and killed at least 22 people in Mumbai on Tuesday as the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade brought chaos to India's financial capital and surrounding areas.

Scores more were injured when the structure came down at nighttime in a slum, said Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai's local authority.

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