At least 27 people died yesterday evening when part of a multi-storey building collapsed in Mumbai in India.
A section of the Laxmi Chaya building in West Borivali, in suburban Mumbai, came down at 6.20pm.
Early reports said at least 24 families lived in the seven-storey apartment, which had shops on its ground floor.
Local residents helped police and fire brigade members in the rescue operation, but officials have been unable to confirm the number of bodies believed to be trapped under the rubble.
A local legislator outside Bhagwati hospital casualty unit said the number of dead and injured could be high.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known but local reports suggested the structure of the building, ravaged by monsoon rains every year, had become weak.
