Police have booked the builder of Chintels Paradiso, a residential housing complex, and the construction contractor for negligence, while the district administration has ordered an inquiry into the matter
The ground plus four-storey structure caved in at around 3.50 pm in the Behram Nagar of the western suburb, he said.
An official of the Mumbai Fire Brigade said fire brigade vehicles were present at the spot of the building collapse.
The incident took place in Ulhasnagar town around 10 pm on Saturday when the slab of an apartment's bedroom located on the fifth floor of Paras building crashed on the fourth floor, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.
According to the officials, a call was received regarding incident at around 1.20 pm, following which 3 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
Video of the incident has been widely shared on social media. Locals were seen running away from the area as the building came crashing down.
The deceased woman and the child were trapped on the top floor of the building and 3 other persons who were trapped on the ground floor were rescued, police said.
Fire department personnel rushed to the spot of the incident and carried out evacuation before the building came crashing down to the ground.
The slab of a flat on the third floor of 'C-wing' of the Khatri Apartments, located in Rabodi area, came crashing down on its ground floor at around 6 am.
The Cancer Institute was inagurated by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who has has seeked more information on the matter from the Director of the hospital.
Some people at the residential building were celebrating a birthday party at the time of the incident.
The victims were residents of the building, two of whom have been sent to hospital, said the report.
Among those injured in the building collapse are- 65-yr-old Dhani Ram, his wife Anaro Devi and a man named Rajkumar. All were taken to the GTB Hospital.
According to officials, the fire department received a call around 1.30 pm about the building collapse in an auto market in Nand Nagri, following which six fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
Ground plus one storey residential structure has collapsed at Shivaji Nagar in Govandi, amid heavy downpour in Maharashtra, including Mumbai.
Three people were killed in a building collapse and a body was retrieved from a flooded underpass in Haryana's Gurgaon district, police said on Monday as several parts of the millennium city of high-rise buildings and glass towers came underwater with images of people wading through waterlogged roads doing the rounds on social media.
The incident took place at around 7 pm near a warehouse located in the Khawaspur area, officials said.
Authorities say at least eight people have died and nine remained missing in a hotel collapse in Suzhou city in eastern China.
The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the site of last week’s deadly collapse in South Florida.
Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery.
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