Madurai/Chennai, Dec 22 (PTI) A head constable was killed and another policeman sustained serious injuries on Wednesday after an old building collapsed in Madurai, the government said.

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Expressing grief and conveying his condolences to the bereaved family, Chief Minister M K Stalin ordered a solatium of Rs 25 lakh to the family of the deceased head constable and a government job to his wife.

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Stalin ordered an assistance of Rs five lakh to the family of another policeman, also a head constable, who was severely injured, an official release said.

In the wee hours of Wednesday, a dilapidated building collapsed on two head constables who were standing on a street in Madurai as part of night patrol.

While Saravanan was killed on the spot, another head constable Kannan sustained severe head injury and hand fracture and was rushed to a hospital, where he is being treated.

The two policemen were attached to the Villakkuthoon police station in Madurai. PTI

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