Seven persons died and eight others were injured while over 40 people are feared trapped as a century-old four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai’s Dongri locality, officials say.

Five people are killed as an apartment block collapses in New Delhi, crushing residents beneath mountains of concrete, in the latest building accident to hit India.

A six-story building under construction collapsed onto an adjacent building east of the Indian capital, killing at least three people and trapping several others under the debris, police say.

A four-story rickety hotel building collapses in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another three, police says.