DHAKA: The search for survivors at the site of a collapsed apartment building ended on Sunday in India’s financial capital of Mumbai with a final death toll of 60 people.

An emergency response official said, reports The Straits Times.

Rescuers managed to save 33 people from the building’s wreckage in the two-day search. By Sunday morning, all 93 people listed as missing had been accounted for and the search was called off, said Alok Awasthi, local commander of the National Disaster Response Force.

The five-storey building that collapsed on Friday was the third deadly cave-in of a Mumbai structure in six months.

The cause is under investigation.

High demand for housing around India`s crowded cities combined with lax inspections often result in contractors cutting corners by using substandard materials or adding unauthorised floors.

BDST: 1525 HRS, SEPT 29, 2013
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