Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, the 59-year-old gastroenterologist who had gone missing after Tuesday’s downpour in Mumbai, was confirmed dead earlier this morning after his body was found near Worli. “We got a call from a local at 6.30 am of a body being found near a drain opening in Worli. Amrapurkar’s family has identified the body and it has been sent for a post mortem at Sion Hospital,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sunil Deshmukh told The Indian Express.

Amrapurkar was said to have fallen into a manhole near Lower Parel while walking on a flooded road on Tuesday evening. Family members earlier told The Indian Express that the gastroenterologist was returning home from Bombay Hospital when he decided to walk home as it was around 10 minutes away.

“He asked the driver to take the car home and decided to walk,” said Pallavi Godbole, his niece. “His house is just 10 minutes away from where he left the vehicle. However, the driver reached home, but he didn’t. We have been searching for him since then,” she said, adding they couldn’t get through to his cellphone.

At least six persons, including a lawyer who was locked in his car on a waterlogged road, died and seven others were reported missing in Mumbai a day after the city recorded its highest rainfall since 2005. Four people were killed in Thane, another four died in Palghar.

“None of the manholes had been opened by us on Tuesday… In any case, they are only opened during the day,” said a Storm Water Drainage (SWD) department official. Mumbai rains: 14 killed, search for a missing doctor.

For all the latest India News, download Indian Express App</s>Mumbai building collapse leaves 33 dead, nearly a dozen others possibly buried

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Rescuers have worked through the night, removing the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Mumbai, where at least 33 people have died and nearly a dozen others may still be buried.

Key points: The 117-year-old five-storey building was declared unsafe to live in six years ago

At least 33 people are dead and nearly a dozen could still be buried

Mumbai is returning to normal after two days of heavy downpours

Fire officer Prabhat Kumar said 15 injured survivors were pulled from the debris.

Nearly a dozen others were missing and feared trapped beneath the huge mound of broken concrete slabs and twisted steel girders after the building collapsed in India's financial capital.

Rescuers used earth-moving machines to lift concrete slabs and cement blocks as they searched for survivors.

The rickety 117-year-old, five-story building in the congested Bhendi Bazaar in south Mumbai was declared unsafe to live in six years ago, but people continued to stay there.

The residents of an adjacent building were advised to leave after it developed cracks.

The building had housed nine families in apartments above a first-floor nursery school, but the collapse on Thursday morning occurred before the toddlers had arrived for the day, police said.

Collapse came after highest rainfall since 2005

It was the first major building collapse after Mumbai recorded 315 millimetres of rainfall on Tuesday, the city's highest since 2005.

Thousands of buildings in Mumbai are more than a century old, their foundations weakened by years of heavy monsoon rains.

The collapse of a four-story building in the city's suburb of Ghatkopar last month killed 17.

Building collapses are common in India during the monsoon season, which is June to September.

High demand and lax regulations encourage some builders to use substandard materials or add unauthorised extra floors.

Property prices and rents in Mumbai are among the highest in India as the city has expanded in the past five decades.

The city is slowly returning to normal after being paralysed by heavy downpours for two days.

Since the start of the season, devastating floods across South Asia have killed at least 1,000 people and affected close to 40 million across northern India, southern Nepal and northern Bangladesh.

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Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, india

First posted</s>A multi-storeyed residential building collapsed in Bhendi Bazar area of south Mumbai on Thursday, with the civic officials fearing that about 40 people many people are trapped under the rubble.

“Our disaster management cell received a call at 8.40am about the collapse. We immediately rushed fire brigade personnel to the site to rescue the trapped people. We fear that several people are trapped under the debris,” a senior Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) official said.

Below are the live updates:

12.16pm: Fire breaks out at the site

11.57am: 125 fire brigade officials and 90 NDRF officials at the site

11.51am: First notice was sent in 2011

11.49am: Mumbai has seen 3 building collapses in two months

11.45am: The building was at least 50 years old

11.32am: Four families were living in the building

11.31am: It was a dilapidated building and notices were served to vacate it

11.25am: The building had 12 rooms and six godowns on the ground floor

11.12am: A police official told Reuters nine families were living in the building, which is located in Mumbai’s Dongri neighbourhood, an area full of narrow streets with closely packed buildings, some nearly a century old.

11.02am: “Twelve people, who were found under the debris , were rushed to JJ hospital. While five of them are in critical condition, two were brought dead. One patient died during treatment,” said Dr TP Lahane from JJ hospital.

10:51am: Three people have been killed in the collapse, reports news agency ANI.

10:46am: Forty people are believed to be stuck inside and a 43-member team is conducting rescue operations, an official for India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told AFP.

10:45am: A Mumbai Police official said the area near the building has been cordoned off. The fire department personnel and medical staff have reached the spot.</s>Rescuers are desperately searching for at least 30 people trapped in rubble after a five-storey building collapsed in flood-hit Mumbai.

At least four people have been confirmed to have died in the collapse in western Indian city early on Thursday.

Rescue workers, police and locals have so far pulled 13 people out of the debris alive as heavy machinery was used to lift the rubble.

Residents in an adjacent building in the Bhendi Bazaar area in southern Mumbai have been urged to evacuate after it developed cracks.

Two days of torrential rain across the region, the heaviest for more than 15 years, has exposed the foundations of Mumbai's buildings and left them at risk of collapse.

Building collapses are common in India during the monsoon season, which is June to September.

Transport in the city ground to a halt as roads turned into rivers and floodwaters swept across many low-lying buildings.

Drivers were forced to leave their vehicles while people waded through waist-deep water to reach their homes.</s>Heavy floods swamped Indian financial capital, Mumbai on Tuesday, August 29. It was the worst natural disaster the city witnessed since the devastating floods in 2005. The heavy downpour caused widespread travel disruption and a train derailment.</s>NEW DELHI (AP) — A five-story building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing seven people and injuring 13 others on Thursday, after torrential rains lashed the country’s west. Another 25 people are feared trapped in the debris.

Rescue workers, police and residents helped pull 13 people out of the rubble and were looking for those buried beneath. The residential building is located in a congested lane of the Bhendi Bazaar area in southern Mumbai.

Thousands of Mumbai buildings that are more than 100 years old are at risk of collapse, their foundations weakened partly by some of the heaviest rainfall that the city has witnessed in more than 15 years.

Authorities were advising people living in an adjacent building to vacate after it developed cracks following Thursday’s collapse.

A police official at the site said it was not immediately clear how many people were trapped in the building.

“We are asking people to check if their family members are safe and accounted for,” said Manoj Sharma. He said nine families lived in the building.

A nursery school was located in the ground floor of the building, but the collapse occurred before the toddlers had reached for the day.

Building collapses are common in India during the monsoon season, which is June to September. High demand and lax regulations encourage some builders to use substandard materials or add unauthorized extra floors.

Meanwhile, the city was slowly limping back to normalcy after it was paralyzed by heavy downpours for two days.

Train services and public transport were halted and airports shut on Tuesday as roads turned into rivers and floodwaters seeped into many low-lying buildings. In many places, people had to abandon their vehicles and wade through waist-deep water to reach their homes.

Schools, colleges and offices that were shut Wednesday opened Thursday, but attendance was sparse.

Every year the city struggles to cope with the annual monsoon deluge, drawing criticism about its poor planning.</s>TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least three people died and dozens were feared trapped when a building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai Thursday, after days of heavy rain swamped the city.

Rescuers using diggers could be seen sifting through the remains of the four-story residential building which gave way around 08:40 am (0310 GMT) in the densely populated area of Bhendi Bazaar.

It was the latest deadly housing collapse to strike the teeming metropolis — shining a spotlight on poor construction standards in the Asian country — and came after heavy rains and inundations in the city killed 10 people.

A spokesman for the Mumbai civic authority’s disaster control team said three bodies had been pulled from the rubble.

“Three people are dead and thirteen injured have been rescued from the building collapse. Two firemen also have been injured during the rescue operations,” Tanaji Kamble, told AFP.

An official in the control room of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said dozens more were thought to be trapped, he added.

“Forty people are believed to be stuck inside and a 43-member team is conducting rescue operations,” the official said.

He said eight or nine families were thought to have been living in the building.

Building collapses are common in Mumbai, especially during the monsoon season from late June to September, when heavy rains lash the western Indian city.</s>Twelve people are dead and up to 25 are trapped under a building that has collapsed after torrential rains lashed Mumbai, municipal authorities say.

Rescue workers, police and local residents helped pull 13 people out of the rubble when the five-storey building collapsed in India's commercial hub.

Rescue operations were underway to rescue those trapped in the debris, police said.

Thousands of Mumbai buildings that are more than 100 years old are at risk of collapse, their foundations weakened partly by some of the heaviest rainfall that the city has had in more than 15 years.

Television images showed people on top of the debris, looking for those trapped as rescue personnel reached the spot.

"Rescue operations are already underway," the fire control room official said.

"We have sent 12 fire brigade vehicles to the spot.

"Ambulances are also ready to take the victims to the hospital."

A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was also involved in the rescue operations.

Authorities advised people living in an adjacent building to leave after it developed cracks following the collapse.

Last month, 17 people were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in an eastern suburb of Mumbai.

Building collapses are common in India during the monsoon season, which is June to September.

High demand and lax regulations encourage some builders to use substandard materials or add unauthorised extra floors.</s>Rescuers were desperately searching for up to 40 people feared trapped when a building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai Thursday, officials said.

The four-storey residential building gave way around 08:40 am (0310 GMT) in the densely populated area of Bhendi Bazaar after heavy rains in the city that have killed 10 people.</s>At least 21 people died yesterday when a building collapsed in India's financial capital Mumbai, as the city mops up after heavy rain that has wreaked havoc in many parts of South Asia.

Thirteen people were rescued, but some were feared trapped under the rubble in the densely populated area of Bhendi Bazaar.

This was the most recent deadly housing collapse to strike the metropolis, shining a spotlight on poor construction standards in India.

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A rickety multi-story apartment building collapses in the Indian city of Mumbai resulting in at least 24 deaths with at least 12 people missing.