The caving in of Huseini Building collapsed off Pakmodia Street at congested Bhendi Bazaar locality is the second major building collapse during the current monsoon in Mumbai where building crashes have become a regular feature in recent years.
In the earlier mishap that took place on July 25, 17 persons were killed and 20 others injured when the Sai Darshan building collapsed at Ghatkopar north-east Mumbai.
In the previous major mishap that took place on October 13 last year, six persons, including three children, were killed and five others injured when a major portion of four-storey building collapsed at Behrampada slum at Bandra (east) in north-west Mumbai.
In two earlier mishaps, 16 persons were killed in two building collapses that took place in a span of one week – in the last week of July and first week of August last year at Bhiwandi, which a satellite town of Mumbai. Earlier on April 30 last year, six persons were killed and two others injured, when a dilapidated two-storey building collapsed in the 14th gully of the red-light district of Kamathipura at Grant Road in south Mumbai.
In all, four fire officers, including Mumbai’s chief fire officer Sunil Nesarikar were killed during the extinguishing operations of a massive fire that had swept through the four-storey building in the congested downtown Kalabadevi area in south Mumbai on May 10, 2015.
The worst building collapse that place in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in recent years was on April 4, 2013, when 78 persons were killed and 60 others injured when a seven-storey building collapse at Mumbra, near Thane. As many as 61 persons were killed when a BMC-owned building near the Babu Genu Market off the Dockyard Road station at Mazgaon in south Mumbai collapsed on September 27, 2013.
During the same year, another 27 persons were killed and 30 others injured in three mishaps that took place on June 10, June 21 and March 14, 2013