Mumbai: Rescuers sifting through the rubble of a five-storeyed building in Maharashtra’s Raigad found a four-year-old boy alive Tuesday and his mother dead beneath the debris, police said. Death toll in the collapse reached 10 with recovery of nine bodies from the rubble Tuesday, police said.
A man died of cardiac arrest on Monday night after he was hit by a stone from the falling building, police said. The dead – five men and five women – include two teenagers, police informed.
So far eight persons have been rescued, while around 10 persons are still missing after the Tareq Garden building in Mahad town, around 170 km from Mumbai, came down like a pack of cards Monday evening, an official said.
Police registered Tuesday an offence against five persons, including the builder and architect of Tareq Garden in connection with collapse, an official said.
The offence was registered against builder Farooq Kazi, RCC consultant Bahubali Dhamne, and architect Gaurav Shah under sections 304, 304A and 338 of the IPC, the official informed.
Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde reached Mahad in the wee hours Tuesday following instructions from Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, to oversee rescue and relief work, sources close to him said.