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India: Billboard collapse kills 12, injures dozens in Mumbai

Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard at a petrol station collapsed during a fierce storm in India's financial capital Mumbai, officials said Monday, DW reports.

Eight bodies have already been removed from the wreckage, while four others are still buried in the rubble, according to Gaurav Chauhan, an inspector with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

"We have located them but we cannot remove them due to this petrol pump and the situation can be hazardous," he added.

Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state, said the injured were being treated at Rajawadi Hospital. A "high-level inquiry has been ordered into the incident," Fadnavis said on X, formerly Twitter.

An excavator dug through the wreckage as rescuers raced to find any survivors trapped under the collapsed billboard, which measured 70 by 50 meters.

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