DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a five-storey apartment block in Mumbai rose to 33 as rescuers frantically searched for around two dozen others trapped beneath the rubble.

Officials said Saturday, reports The Striats Times.

Rescue official Alok Avasthy of the National Disaster Management Authority said 33 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage of the building which caved in Friday while an equal number of people had been rescued.

‘We were given 89 as the number of people in the building so we are now looking for 23 others still missing,’ Avasthy told media from a control centre set up at the collapse site.

He said a male survivor in his 40s was the latest to be pulled from under the twisted iron bars and chunks of fallen concrete on Saturday afternoon.

BDST: 1711 HRS, SEPT 28, 2013
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