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Chronology of building collapse incidents and other mishaps in

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Press Trust of India Mumbai

Following is a summary of incidents of building collapse and accidents involving infrastructure in the country's financial capital and its satellite towns in the last few years.

April 4, 2013: 74 people, including 18 children, killed as an unauthorized under-construction building collapses near Mumbra in neighbouring Thane.

September 27, 2013: 61 people killed and 32 injured as four-storey Babu Genu Market building housing civic body employees collapses.

July 26, 2017: 17 dead and 22 injured after four- storey Sai Siddhi apartment in suburban Ghatkopar collapses. Local Shiv Sena leader arrested for allegedly carrying out structural changes on the ground floor which led to collapse.

 

September 1, 2017: 33 people killed as 117-year-old five-storey Husaini Building collapses in Bhendi Bazar in South Mumbai.

September 27, 2017: 23 railway commuters killed and 39 injured in stampede on a foot overbridge at then Elphinstone Road railway station.

July 28, 2018: A part of the 47-year-old Gokhale Road Bridge in suburban Andheri collapses on the rail track below killing two local train passengers.

December 23, 2018 : Three people are dead and six injured after a ground-plus two chawl built by the state-run agency Mhada collapses in suburban Goregaon.

March 15, 2019: Six killed and 30 injured when a foot overbridge outside the iconic CSMT railway station collapses.

July 2, 2019: 29 dead and 70 injured after a compound wall collapses on a slum in suburban Malad

July 16, 2019: At least 11 killed as a building collapses in south Mumbai's Dongri area.

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First Published: Jul 16 2019 | 10:10 PM IST

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