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. 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. 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. 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.
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.