The ground floor housed a nursing home, which was vacant, while the rest of the building was occupied by three or four families on each floor. Shiv Sena leader Sunil Shitap, who owns the ground floor and allegedly made structural changes that weakened the building, was charged with culpable homicide and detained by police. In 2013, 145 people were killed in three separate building collapses around Mumbai, the highest in recent years. Nine people died the same month when another old three-storey building collapsed in monsoon rain in the Mumbai suburb of Thakurli. In a separate incident on Tuesday, a building partially collapsed in Kolkata after days of rain.

Source: Hindustan Times July 25, 2017 18:45 UTC