14 dead in Mumbai building collapse

Injured have been admitted to state-run JJ Hospital and Nair Hospital.

At least 14 people lost their lives and over 40 were injured when a ground-plus-four-storey building on Dockyard Road in Mazgaon collapsed around 5.45 am on Friday.

The 33-year-old building housed the families of Class III and Class IV employees of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on its upper floors,while the ground floor was a civic market.

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Rescue operations by fire officials of the BMC and three teams of the National Disaster Response Force had,till 7 pm,managed to save 44 lives. Forty more residents are feared to be trapped under the debris. It is a pancake collapse similar to the Lucky Compound building collapse in Mumbra on April 4 this year, said Alok Avasthy,Commandant,5th Battalion,NDRF.

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The building had 22 families residing on its upper floors and most of them were sleeping when it collapsed.

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