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Surat: Four construction labourers were buried after an under-construction house in Adarsh Nagar Society in Athwalines collapsed on Wednesday evening.A team of fire-fighters from the fire and emergency department reached the spot and started the rescue operation.Sources said labourers had just finished with the concrete slab at late evening.Suddenly, the entire concrete slab collapsed, leaving around four labourers buried under the debris. We could do nothing as the concrete structure was heavy. We are trying everything possible to rescue the people buried inside. Luckily, other labourers were waiting outside for their contractor to arrive and pay them their daily wages.”A fireman at the spot said, “The concrete structure is very heavy and needs to be cut. When we reached at the site, which is few meters away, we found people shouting from beneath the slab..