Death toll in India building collapse jumps to 35

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The death toll from an apartment block collapse in western India jumped to 35 Wednesday, officials said, as hopes of finding anyone else alive dimmed.

Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed three-storey residential building in Bhiwandi on September 21, 2020. – Ten people were killed and up to 25 were feared trapped after a three-storey residential building collapsed before dawn on September 21 in western India, officials said.

Mumbai, India — Emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force have so far pulled 20 survivors from the rubble of the three-story building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.An NDRF spokesman and local authorities told reporters that recovery teams, aided by sniffer dogs, retrieved 35 bodies buried under brick and concrete after the block came crashing down before dawn on Monday.

An official with Thane city authorities, which oversees Bhiwandi, said the dead included eight children.

 

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