Building collapse
UPDATE: Death toll in India building collapse jumps to 39
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,...
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.
The building collapsed in Nairobi's Huruma residential estate late on Friday after days of heavy rains.
Lagos authorities said the house collapsed after the owners had added floors despite lacking a permit.
The developer has been arrested on suspicion of negligent homicide following the building's collapse.
The Nigerian pastor says those affected by the collapse must ‘set themselves free’ from the tragedy.
Authorities say the cause of the collapse is unknown.