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Mumbai miracle: Baby pulled ALIVE from rubble of illegal apartment building that collapsed killing 17 children and 24 adults

This is the moment a young child - caked in white dust - was plucked to safety from the wreckage of a collapsed building in Mumbai in which as many as 40 people are feared to have died.
Rescue workers showed their joy as she was carried away for treatment following her rescue in the city's Thane neighbourhood. At least seventeen children perished in the disaster.
The half-finished building was being constructed illegally according to the police. Rescuers used sledgehammers, power saws and hydraulic jacks to try to break through the rubble in their desperate search for survivors.
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Miracle: A rescue worker holds a baby found beneath the rubble of the collapsed apartment block in Mumbai. The child is caked in white dust from the crumbled building
Miracle: A rescue worker holds a baby found beneath the rubble of the collapsed apartment block in Mumbai. The child is caked in white dust from the crumbled building
Search: Residents and rescue workers desperately search the rubble for survivors after an illegally constructed building collapsed in Mumbai
Search: Residents and rescue workers desperately search the rubble for survivors from the collapsed structure
Saved: Sandhya, 4, a survivor of a building collapse, recovers at a Mumbai hospital. At least 38 people were crushed to death in the building, which police say was built illegally
Saved: Sandhya, 4, a survivor of a building collapse, recovers at a Mumbai hospital. At least 38 people were crushed to death in the building, which police say was built illegally

Rescued: Another young survivor, aged about ten months, recovers at a hospital. The collapse has highlighted the dangers of India's illegal housing boom
Rescued: Another young survivor, aged about ten months, recovers at a hospital. The collapse has highlighted the dangers of India's illegal housing boom
Tears: A young child receives treatment after being taken from the wreckage of the collapsed structure
Tears: A young child receives treatment after being taken from the wreckage of the collapsed structure
Six bulldozers have even been brought to the scene to help with the search.
The building caved in at 6.08pm yesterday, police said, leaving a pile of smashed concrete and twisted metal. Fifty people were injured, while another 20 are still missing.
 

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'There may be (a) possibility people have been trapped inside right now,' the local police commissioner K.P. Raghuvanshi,' said.
More than 20 people remain missing and three floors of the building are still to be searched, said R.S. Rajesh, an official with the National Disaster Response Force who was at the scene.
Diggers were later brought in to try to shift the rubble. Around 20 people remain missing following the building's collapse
Diggers were later brought in to try to shift the wreckage. Around 20 people remain missing following the building's collapse
Collapse: At least eleven children were killed in the disaster - although most of those crushed in the building are thought to be construction workers
Collapse: At least eleven children were killed in the disaster - while others crushed in the building are thought to include construction workers
'All the three floors are sandwiched ... so it's is very difficult for us,' he said, adding that rescuers were continuing to pull survivors from the wreckage. Among the dead, were at least 11 children, police said.

A nearby hospital was filled with the injured, many of who had head wounds, fractures and spinal injuries. Hospital officials searched in vain for the parents of an injured 10-month-old girl who had been rescued.

At least four floors of the building had been completed and were occupied. Workers had finished three more floors and were adding the eighth when it collapsed, police Inspector Digamber Jangale said.

Desperate: Building collapses are common in India, where construction firms often flout building rules. Here rescuers peer into the rubble in the hope of spotting a survivor
Desperate: Here rescuers peer into the rubble in the hope of spotting a survivor. Building collapses are common in India, where construction firms often flout construction rules
Blame: One man uses a pole to probe the collapsed building. Police are searching for the people responsible for its construction
Blame: One man uses a pole to probe the collapsed building. Police are searching for the people responsible for its construction
It was not immediately clear what caused the structure to collapse, but Mr Raghuvanshi said the building was weak and that officers were searching for the builders to arrest them.

'The inquiry is ongoing. We are all busy with the rescue operation; our priority now is to rescue as many as possible,' he said.

Rescuers and nearby residents stood on the remains of the roof trying to get to the people trapped inside. Residents carried the injured into ambulances and one man was seen carrying a small child caked in white dust from the wreckage.
Mr Raghuvanshi said rescue workers had saved 15 people from the wreckage. Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using poor quality materials and multi-storied structures are built with inadequate supervision.

A local resident, who did not give his name, said the site was only meant to hold a smaller structure and said officials turned a blind eye to the problem.

Efforts: Huge numbers of local people pitched in to try to help in the search for survivors. Here men carry a body from the wreckage
Efforts: Huge numbers of local people pitched in to try to help in the search for survivors. Here men carry a body from the wreckage
Lights: Spotlights were used to illuminate the scene of the rescue as dozens of local people look on
Lights: Spotlights were used to illuminate the scene of the rescue as dozens of local people look on
'They made an eight storey building of what was supposed to be a four storey building. People from the municipality used to visit the building but the builder still continued to add floors,' he said.
The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption allow builders to add unauthorized floors or build entirely illegal buildings.
G.R. Khairnar, a former top Mumbai official, said government officials who allowed the illegal construction should be tried along with the builders.
'There are a lot of people involved (in illegal construction) - builders, government machinery, police, municipal corporation - everybody is involved in this process,' he told CNN-IBN television.
In one of the worst recent collapses, nearly 70 people were killed in November 2010 when an apartment building in a congested New Delhi neighborhood crumpled. That building was two floors higher than legally allowed and its foundation appeared to have been weakened by water damage.

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