At least 12 people including eight children, have been reported dead after Mumbai’s Malad West Area collapsed late on Wednesday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that a search and rescue operation is underway. 

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“It’s an unfortunate incident. It was a G+2 building that fell on another building. 18 people have been rescued, of whom 11 died. Police will carry out a proper investigation and take further action,” Dilip Sawant, Additional CP told ANI. 

“Three persons are still suspected to be trapped and the search operation is on to find them,” Prabhat Rahangdale from the Mumbai city authority told the Indian Express daily, as per AFP reports. 

Mumbai Police will register case u/s 304 (2) of IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) against the owner of the structure that collapsed and the contractor. They had recently made some structural changes after cyclone Tauktae,” Vishwas Nangre Patil, Jt CP (Law & Order) told ANI. 

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The incident took place around 11 PM on June 9, BMC states. A portion of the 2nd and 3rd floor of a three-story residential building collapsed on an adjacent one-story floor chawl.