More than 70 people are feared trapped after a five-storey building, containing 40 apartments, collapsed in India’s Maharashtra state on Monday evening.
The incident occurred in Mahad, around 160 km from Mumbai, in the state's Raigad district.
According to the police, the building collapsed around 6:30 p.m. (India time).
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"Initially, top three floors of the building collapsed following which several people managed to rush outside the building and saved themselves," said Raigad District Collector Nidhi Chaudhari.
Chaudhari added that 15 people have been rescued so far while three Natural Disaster Response Force teams from Pune have been dispatched to Mahad.
There is still no information about what actually caused the building to collapse.