More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India
Rescue workers pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in an industrial town near India's financial capital Mumbai, a senior official said on Tuesday, as rescue efforts continued.
The five-story building near a slum district in Mahad, which housed roughly 200 residents, caved in on Monday evening.
One resident was dead and at least 30 were still trapped in the building which comprises of 47 flats, according to local authorities.
Local residents and police combed through tin sheets, metal rods and other wreckage in a desperate search for survivors as ambulances rushed injured to nearby hospitals amid heavy monsoon rains and fears of COVID-19 infections.
The cause of the accident was not clear. But building collapses are common in India, usually due to shoddy construction, substandard materials and disregard of regulations.
Every year, heavy downpours during the June to September monsoon season bring down rain-sodden small and large structures deemed too dangerous to live in.
(Source: Reuters)
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