New Delhi, July 25 -- Hours after a school's building collapsed in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district on Friday, two students said that they had noticed stones falling from the roof and informed their teacher about it. However, their complaints were ignored.

A portion of a government school in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district collapsed just as the students were assembling for morning prayers, killing seven children and leaving 28 injured, some of them critically.

"While we were sitting inside the classroom, stones started falling from the roof. Immediately, we informed our teacher, but what we said was ignored. Later, the roof collapsed," two students told ANI.

The part of the Piplodi Government School building housing Classes 6 and 7 gave way...