One dead as three houses in chawl collapse at Mumbai's Dahisar

Mumbai, Jun 10 (PTI) One person died after three houses in a chawl located at Dahisar, a western suburb of Mumbai, collapsed on Thursday evening, civic officials said.

incident occurred at Lokhandi Chawl in Shivaji Nagar area of Dahisar east around 6.36 pm, y said.

On being alerted, personnel of fire brige and or agencies rushed to spot, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials said.

One person was rescued from spot and rushed to Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali, a fire brige official said.

"However, doctors at hospital declared that person, 26-year-old Pryumna Saroj, de before mission," he said.

Furr details about incident are awaited.

This is second incident of house collapse in Mumbai in past 24 hours and third this week.

At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed and seven ors injured after two floors of a three-storey residential building collapsed on an joining single-storey house in Malwani in suburban Mumbai late on Wednesday night. PTI KK NP NP