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Building crash toll in Mumbai rises to 45
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The death toll from the collapse of a Mumbai apartment block jumped to 45 late yesterday, and was expected to climb again as rescuers worked through the night searching for more victims, officials said.
“We’ve got 45 bodies now,” Alok Avasthy, a senior official of the National Disaster Management Authority said from the site where emergency crews worked to find other people still missing under a mass of concrete slabs, the destruction left by Friday’s five-story cave-in.
Distraught relatives stood tearfully watching the rescue efforts being carried out under floodlights. “We are working through the night. We were told there were 89 people in the building at the time of the collapse and so far we have accounted for 78,” Avasthy said.
The apartment crashed at dawn on Friday — marking the latest such city disaster. Five other buildings have collapsed in recent months, including one in April that killed 74 people.
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