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Death toll in Mumbai building collapse rises to 6; rescue ops continue

Three people are still injured of which condition of a 17-year-boy is critical

Mumbai building collapse
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Rescue operation underway after a part of the three-storey Chawl collapsed following the heavy rainfall, at Malad in Mumbai on Thursday.

Press Trust of India Mumbai
The death toll in the building collapse in the Fort area of Mumbai has gone up to six with four more persons succumbing to injuries, while a search operation was still underway at the site, civic authorities said on Friday morning.

Two persons were killed after a corner portion of six-storey 'Bhanushali' building collapsed in the Fort area around 4.45 pm on Thursday.

Three more persons, who were rescued from the site, were declared dead at the hospital around midnight on Thursday, while a 62-year-old woman died on Friday morning, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.

The woman

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