Nearly 50 dead as illegally built building collapses

A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India’s financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing at least 47 people and injuring 70 others, authorities said.

After the eight-storey building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in, rescue workers with sledgehammers, saws and hydraulic jacks struggled to break through the tower of rubble in their search for possible survivors.

Six bulldozers were brought to the scene.