Rescue workers in Mumbai frantically searched for survivors beneath the rubble on the morning after a building collapse killed at least 11 people, including eight children, following the first downpour of the monsoon season.
Resident Mohammed Rafiq Siddiqui said he had lost nine family members when a four-story tenement block came down on the adjoining building where he lived late on Wednesday evening.
“I left home at 10.30 pm to fetch some milk, but by the time I came home the building had collapsed,” Siddiqui told Reuters.
“People came to help us when the building collapsed, the police …