Mumbai building collapse, Maharashtra Raigad Building Collapse
Mumbai building collapse, Maharashtra Raigad Building Collapse.
One person has died and at least 100 feared trapped in the debris of a five-storey building that collapsed in an industrial town in western India's Maharashtra state, officials said.
Not all the roughly 200 residents of the building in Raigad district's Mahad town, about 165km (100 miles) south of India's financial capital Mumbai, were at home when it crumbled in the evening, local legislator Bharatshet Maruti Gogawale told the Reuters news agency on Monday.
India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) spokesman Sachidanand Gawde told reporters that emergency workers had retrieved the body of one victim, who has not yet been identified.
"I believe about 100 to 125 people must have been inside at the time of its collapse," Gogawale, who was present at the accident site, told Reuters.
The building was comprised of 47 flats, police officials in Mahad said in a statement.
Local residents and police combed through tin sheets, metal rods and other wreckage in a desperate search for survivors as ambulances ferried victims to nearby hospitals.
Authorities said more than two dozen people were pulled out by rescue teams and taken to hospital amid heavy monsoon rains.
NDRF rescue teams and canine squads were deployed to the scene of the accident.
An unnamed official with the Maharashtra state Disaster Management Unit later told the Press Trust of India that at least 51 people were missing.
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