Death toll in India building collapse jumps to 35

National Disaster Response Force officials search for survivors as people help clear the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Sept 21 2020. - Reuters

MUMBAI (AFP): The death toll from an apartment block collapse in western India jumped to 35 Wednesday (Sept 23), officials said, as hopes of finding anyone else alive dimmed.

Emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have so far pulled 20 survivors from the rubble of the three-storey building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.