More than 24 hours after the collapse of a residential building in Dongri area here, the search and rescue operation for survivors was called off on Wednesday, officials said. No more survivors were found at the site of the building crash, located in a congested lane in south Mumbai, they said. Multiple agencies, including the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), had launched a search and rescue operation to locate survivors under the debris. “The search and rescue operation has been called off after removal of the debris and a search of the entire area,” Sachidanand Gawde, PRO of the NDRF battalion engaged in the exercise, said. The high population density in the area and the large crowd of onlookers who gathered at the site, posed a challenge in carrying out the rescue operation, another NDRF official said.

Source: The Hindu July 17, 2019 14:30 UTC