Rescue workers recover a body from the debris at the site of a collapsed residential building in Mumbai on Friday. One person was killed and six injured when the five-storey building came crashing down in south Mumbai in the morning, local media quoted officials as saying.
A four-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing one person with dozens feared trapped in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia’s third-largest economy.
Rescue workers pulled about 20 people from the ruins of the building, which was believed to have been about 35 years old and housed families of a corporation.
Scores of people were feared to be trapped, said a spokesman for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
Source: The Daily Star