An excavator was digging by the wreckage as rescuers raced to seek out any survivors after the signage collapsed at a petroleum station within the metropolis’s east, trapping dozens of individuals beneath.
Eight our bodies had already been faraway from the wreckage, Gaurav Chauhan, an inspector with the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Power (NDRF), mentioned.
4 extra our bodies are nonetheless buried contained in the particles, he added.
“Now we have situated them however we can’t take away them resulting from this petrol pump and the scenario will be hazardous,” he mentioned.
Earlier, a press release from municipal authorities mentioned that 60 folks had been rescued and admitted to hospital.
The collapsed billboard measured 70 by 50 metres, in line with a publish on social media platform X by Mumbai’s police power.
Mumbai was hit by robust winds accompanied by rain and mud storms on Thursday that uprooted bushes and brought about temporary energy outages in components of town, together with disruptions to town’s practice community.
Indian media experiences mentioned flights have been quickly suspended on the metropolis’s worldwide airport with a minimum of 15 planes diverted.
Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state, mentioned the injured have been being handled at Rajawadi Hospital.
A “high-level inquiry has been ordered into the incident”, Fadnavis mentioned in a publish on X.