Building Collapse in Mumbai Kills at Least 14<br />31, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — A building collapsed Thursday morning during a period of heavy rainfall in Mumbai,<br />India’s commercial capital, killing at least 14 people and injuring 15, a local official said.<br />It was part of a redevelopment project in the area<br />that called for demolishing a dozen old structures, then providing housing in new ones for the residents, said Atul Shah, a spokesman for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Maharashtra, which includes Mumbai.<br />Two years ago, a private trust was given the responsibility of moving residents<br />and beginning the renovation, but the work was never completed, Mr. Shah said.<br />The five-story building on Pakmodia Street, a busy section of the Bhindi Bazaar area in the south of the city, was about 100 years old.<br />In July, the police in Mumbai arrested a man accused of making illegal alterations to a five-story building that collapsed, killing 17.<br />In 2013, at least 60 people died when a decrepit building weakened by basement work collapsed in the city.
