Mumbai: Part of five-storey building collapses; one dead, 21 rescued

Four fire engines along with rescue vans, an ambulance, local civic officials, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and police personnel rushed to the spot.

A few people are likely to trapped. Express Photo by Amit Chakravorty

The local Congress corporator Asif Zakaria said,  “the locals told me that the building is about 40-years old and some repair work at the staircase side was going on. The BMC had issued them some notice for structural audit. The portion of the building has been tilted after the collapsed.”

Officials from the BMC said, “our priority is search and rescue. The cause of the incident will be ascertained once the operation is over.”