A church dormitory has collapsed on attendees of a Christian conference in eastern Nepal as they slept, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police said.
The people had gathered in the eastern town of Dharan on Monday for the week-long conference and were sleeping in a church extension made of bamboo and tin roofing when the collapse took place, police official Arjun Khadka said.
The area is about 400 kilometres southeast of the capital, Kathmandu.
Among those killed were 17 women and four children.
Police were investigating the incident and the injured were taken to the nearby B.P. Koirala medical college hospital, he said.
Christians, who are a minority in predominantly Hindu Nepal, had gathered in Dharan from throughout the country.
