At least two people were killed and two are believed to be trapped underneath debris after a building in Mumbai’s Zaveri bazaar area collapsed on Friday, ANI reported.
By Friday evening, rescue workers pulled out two bodies. One of them was identified as 22-year-old Firoz Khan. No information was available about the second victim.
An official said the slab of the five-storey building collapsed and brought down with it the common passage of the first, second, third and fourth floors, PTI reported. The building belonged to Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, and repair work was going on under the supervision of engineers, the news agency quoted an official as saying.
“Ten labourers were working on the fourth floor and six were working on the first floor,” PS Rahangdale, chief of the Mumbai Fire Brigade told PTI.
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