Hyderabad, March 27 -- At least two persons were feared dead when the top four floors of a six-storey under-construction building collapsed in the temple town of Bhadrachalam in Telangana's Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Wednesday afternoon, the police said. The floors were illegally constructed, police added.

The incident happened when six construction workers were taking their lunch on the second floor of the building, located adjacent to the local gram panchayat office. The slabs of the building collapsed with a loud thud and fell one over the other.

"Four of the six workers came out minutes before the slabs collapsed, while two others are caught under the debris," a police official of Bhadrachalam police station supervising the re...