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At least 20 workers were killed and about 50 feared trapped when a chimney under construction at a power plant in central India collapsed, police said today.

The power plant belongs to Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), in which Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd, part of the mining group Vedanta, holds 51 per cent.