11, including 8 children, killed, 7 injured in Mumbai building collapse
Eight children and three adults were
killed and seven other people injured after two floors of a three-storey building
collapsed on an adjoining single-storey house in Malwani area of Mumbai,
officials said on Thursday.
The incident took place around 11.15 pm on
Wednesday at the New Collector Compound on Abdul Hamid Road in the Malwani
area, they said.
While earlier civic officials said a
single-storey house had collapsed, they later said it was a three-storey
building.
According to police, the building was
constructed illegally and after the incident, its contractor was being
questioned.
The second and third floors of the
three-storey building collapsed on the adjoining single-storey house, said
Santosh Dhonde, acting ward officer of the city's P-North ward.
Fire brigade and other agencies
immediately rushed to the spot and started a search and rescue operation, the
official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Read
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