NEW DELHI: At least 100 people are feared trapped in the debris of a five-story building that collapsed in an industrial town in western India, Indian media reported.
Not all the roughly 200 residents of the building in Mahad, about 165 km south of India’s financial capital Mumbai, were at home when it crumbled on Monday evening.
“I believe about 100 to 125 people must have been inside at the time of its collapse,” Reuters reported an Indian official as saying.
The building comprised around 47 flats, according to the police department of western Maharashtra state.
Authorities have yet to ascertain the cause of the collapse and the number of casualties, but about 30 people were pulled out by rescue teams and local residents.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has assured the local administration of all possible support for speedy rescue and relief work, his office said on Twitter.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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