Five Nepalis were among the victims of the Thursday building collapse in Mumbai of India, Indian media reported on Monday.
According to the online version of The Times of India, the bodies of five Nepali nationals were recovered after 40 hours of the rescue operation.
They have been identified as Mujaeed Raza, wife Miladun (28), daughters Jalekha (8) and Rataya (6) and brother-in-law Akbar Ali (26). However, the report has not mentioned where from Nepal they hailed.
Raza (32) reportedly had taken his kith and kin to Mumbai six months ago.
At least 72 people were killed when a seven-storey building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial Capital cave in on Thursday.
Monday 8 April 2013
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