20 dead and 30 trapped in a building that has collapsed this morning in Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar area. Four people have been rescued, but over 30 are still feared trapped, a police official said as rescue operations continued.
Two bodies were pulled out from the rubble and a third victim was later declared dead at hospital, police said.
More than two dozen people were living in the old and dilapidated Arsiwala building on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road in the busy marketplace.
Rescue teams have been rushed to the accident site. A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is at the spot as are 10 fire engines. The building is in a congested lane, but the police have cordoned the area around it.
The building collapsed two days after Mumbai was lashed by its heaviest rain in 12 years on Tuesday.
