Rescue teams and sniffer dogs search the rubble for survivors after a five-storey apartment building collapsed 'like a house of cards' in western India
Rescue workers look for survivors after a residential building collapsed in Mahad, India on August 24, 2020.
"One resident was dead and at least 30 were still trapped," said Bharatshet Maruti Gogawale, a local lawmaker in Mahad situated about 165 km south of Mumbai. The cause of the accident was not clear. But building collapses are common in India, usually due to shoddy construction, substandard materials and disregard of regulations.A man removes the debris after a five-storey building collapsed in Raigad in the western state of Maharashtra, India, August 24, 2020.
An unnamed official with the Maharashtra state Disaster Management Unit later told the Press Trust of India that 51 people were missing. Rescue workers look for survivors after a residential building collapsed in Mahad, about 170 kilometres from India's financial capital of Mumbai, Monday, August 24, 2020. Local politician Manik Motiram Jagtap told TV9 Marathi that the structure was 10 years old and built on "weak" foundations.As night fell, emergency workers used cranes to try and remove the rubble as relatives anxiously waited for news of their loved ones.
The monsoon plays a vital role in boosting agricultural harvests across South Asia. But it also causes widespread death and destruction, unleashing floods, triggering building collapses and inundating low-lying villages.
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