Child Pulled Alive From Collapsed Apartment Block in India, at Least 5 Dead

Child Pulled Alive From Collapsed Apartment Block in India, at Least 5 Dead
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) officials carry a dead body which was recovered from the debris after a five-storey building collapsed in Mahad in Raigad district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, on Aug. 25, 2020. Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters
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MAHAD, India—At least 13 people have been killed and several are still missing after a residential building collapsed in western India, where a rescue operation has been under way for more than 28 hours, officials said on Tuesday.

The emergency services have found 76 people alive, but there are still around six unaccounted for following the disaster on Monday evening in Mahad, an industrial town about 100 miles south of Mumbai.