At least 10 persons were killed, 56 others injured and several persons feared trapped under the debris, when an under-construction seven-storey building collapsed at Shila Phata area located between the satellite towns of Mumbra and Dombvili, in the adjoining Thane district on Thursday evening.
Though the mishap took place at around 6.30 pm, the rescue and relief operations were continuing till late in the night. Till 10 pm, bodies of six persons killed in the mishap had been recovered, while the efforts were on to rescue people trapped under the debris.
Earlier in the night, the fire brigade personnel rescued 14 persons from under the debris. Of them, nine were admitted to a civic hospital at Kalwa, while the remaining five are undergoing treatment at the Thane civil hospital.
Police said that the building that crashed was an unauthorised one. Prima facie investigations have revealed that the use of sub-standard material in the construction had led to the collapse of the structure.