Building collapse
Death toll in Nigeria building collapse rises to 10
The three-story building, which was mainly residential, collapsed late Sunday in the Ebute-Metta area of the sprawling city of over 20 million people.
The building collapsed in the Algiers suburb of Bologhine on Tuesday, following a landslide caused by torrential rain that hit the capital and several other Algerian cities.
The dilapidated building, located in the Al-Attarine district, collapsed on Friday, the source told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
The Surfside building was occupied by a mix of full-time and seasonal residents and renters, and officials have stressed it is unclear how many people were actually inside at the time of the collapse, which pancaked around 55 apartments.
Authorities said they were still without news of 99 people who may have been inside the building when part of it came crashing down.
Emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have so far pulled 20 survivors from the rubble of the three-storey building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.
The accident late Monday in the town of Mahad, south of Mumbai, forced three disaster response teams to work through the night, combing tin sheets, twisted metal and broken bricks.
Building collapses are tragically common in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, with millions living in dilapidated buildings and building regulations scarcely respected.
Details are still sketchy at the moment, but paramedics have rushed five people to hospital.
Scores of people clustered around, held back by a cordon, waiting to find news of their family and friends as police and a mechanical digger worked through the wreckage.
It said that it would decide whether or not the building would be reopened once repairs had been carried out.
KwaZulu-Natal emergency services said the collapse took place in the city centre on Thursday afternoon.
About half of the low-rise building collapsed around midday on Thursday, crushing construction workers under piles of toppled concrete pillars and shattered wooden beams.
Rescue teams and ambulances were scrambling to Dharwad district, roughly 700 kilometres northwest of the state capital Bangalore, where the five-floor under-construction apartment block crumbled.
Around two dozen people were trapped in the building of the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in the centre of Russia’s second biggest city, the agencies said.
Rescue workers combed through the rubble of the building in the central Huduma district.
The explosion on Sunday morning destroyed four of 18 apartments in the building, PAP said, quoting a local fire brigade representative.
PS Rahangdale, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade said a total of 16 people had been rescued so far.
The government is warning the death toll could rise further as rescue teams work through the rubble.