NEW DELHI, July 25 (Xinhua) -- At least one woman has been killed and eight others injured after a three-storey building collapsed on an adjoining house in a slum in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, officials said Wednesday.
The mishap happened in the state's Bhiwandi town near Thane district.
"The building had developed cracks and portion of it collapsed on the slum house in Khoni area Tuesday night. While the body of a 25-year-old woman was pulled out of the debris, the injured have been admitted to a government hospital," a disaster management official said.
A probe has been ordered into the incident, police said. "We will book the builder of the house if he is found responsible for the building collapse," a police official said.
In a similar incident near the Indian capital, a four-storey building had collapsed earlier this month when an adjacent six-storey under-construction residential structure fell on top of it in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida city, some 45 km from Delhi.
Building collapses are common in India due to poor construction practices and lack of regards for basic construction norms.
