World Print edition: 2020-09-22

At least 15 dead in India building collapse

Published September 22, 2020 Updated September 22, 2020 02:39am
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BHIWANDI, (India): At least 15 people were killed and up to 25 others were still feared trapped Monday after a three-storey apartment block collapsed in western India, officials said.

Local residents cheered as emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) pulled 20 survivors - including two boys aged four and seven - from the rubble of the building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.