All the people who were pulled out of the rubble of south Mumbai's Hussaini building after noon on the day it crashed were dead, taking the toll to 33 on Friday, the authorities said. Among those who were crushed is Burhanuddin Mandsorawala, a 20-day-old boy whose body was recovered around 3.30 am on Friday along with his mother's. Three children, two of them aged three and another aged six, were declared dead earlier. Responding to the charge, a MHADA officer said: "We conduct structural repairs of buildings every four to five years. Ghegadmal said that of the 1,800 buildings under the BMC's charge, 80 per cent are old and were served structural audit notices.

Source: dna September 02, 2017 00:56 UTC