A hotel collapsed in India yesterday and according to local officials, the death toll has risen to 13.

More are believed to be trapped inside the rubble in the Hyderabad building, while another 20 people have been rescued from the wreckage.

The three-storey hotel was located in Secunderabad, a city in Andhra Pradesh state.

Rescue operations are on going at the scene and a senior police official-Anjani Kumasaid has said the cause of the collapse would be investigated once the rescue phase was over.

The Times of India has reported that locals claimed negligence by authorities had led to the building crashing down.

But it also reported that the hotel had been building a huge kiln for cooking haleem, a popular beef dish eaten during the holy month of Ramadan, which may have affected the structure.

Collapsed buildings are a sadly regular occurrence in India.