Mumbai: One under construction shanty collapsed in Murti Nagar located in the Colaba area of South Mumbai. Three people are feared dead and four injured in the collapse.
Last year, a five-storey apartment block collapsed in Mumbai, killing at least thirteen people.
Rescuers worked into the night to pull out survivors and casualties from the concrete rubble. City authorities said 46 people were rescued by evening.
A shortage of cheap homes has led to a rise in illegal construction by developers who use substandard materials and shoddy methods and then offer cheap rents to low-paid workers.
A rise in property prices in densely populated Mumbai over the past five years has put affordable housing out of reach of tens of thousands of people, many of them migrants who move to the city for work.
