MUMBAI: The death toll from a building collapse in India’s commercial capital Mumbai jumped to 33 Friday as activists decried the latest deadly housing tragedy to strike the crowded metropolis. “Overnight we pulled out 15 bodies, taking the total death count to 33,” Tanaji Kamble, a disaster management spokesman for Mumbai’s civic authority, told Agence France-Presse. Seventeen people including a three-month-old baby died in July when a four-storey building gave way in the northern suburb of Ghatkopar. In 2013, 60 people were killed when a residential block came crashing down in one of Mumbai’s worst housing disasters. Thursday’s collapse came after flooding in the city killed 10 people.

Source: Manila Times September 01, 2017 14:37 UTC