The overnight death toll in the building crash in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi town shot up to 35 with 10 more bodies recovered from the debris as the search for more victims continues after over 48 hours, officials said here on Wednesday.
Minors apparently bore the brunt of the tragedy as the dead comprise at least five infants and 10 other boys and girls aged below 15, besides nine women and 11 men, said an official of the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC), in what is now the biggest building crash of the current monsoon in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in terms of fatalities.
Besides, another 25 persons have been rescued so far from the four-decade old Jilani building in the Patel Compound, Narpoli, which crashed around 3.45 a.m. on Monday morning.
Catching all the victims unaware as they slept in their homes, the local rescue teams and the NDRF along with a Dog Squad saved over two dozen lives, and at least 10 others injured were admitted to various hospitals.