Two high-rise blocks in India demolished for violating building laws

Cloud of dust rise as two high-rise apartment blocks are razed to the ground in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India (Altaf Qadri/AP)

Two high-rise apartment blocks in India were razed to the ground on Sunday after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building laws, officials said.

They became India’s tallest structures to be demolished.