“We heard a loud sound. Everyone shouted: “the building is falling, the building is falling”. I ran. It felt like a big earthquake, ”an eyewitness told NDTV.
Three emergency response teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) work at the scene. In addition, 10 ambulance teams and firemen are on duty near the destroyed building.
“The age of the building is 100 years. We have issued permission for the reconstruction of this zone. We will investigate the reasons for the failure to implement this initiative later. Now we are engaged in rescuing people from the rubble, ”the head of the Indian state of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis told reporters.
According to eyewitnesses, eight or nine families were in the building at the time of the crash.
Earlier it was reported that in the Indian state of Assam in the flood zone caused by monsoon rains, there were more than 2.6 million people, 11 died.