More deaths reported in Mumbai building collapse

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Search and rescue operations continue in Mumbai after an apartment building collapsed killing at least 24 people.

Rescuers say they can still hear people crying out for help from underneath the rubble.

Early Friday morning a five storey apartment building collapsed into a heap of steel and concrete. The building had been home to about 20 families who worked for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.

Officials say the building was about 35 years old and had not been on a list of dilapidated buildings.

And while some survivors have been recovered alive, the unknown number of those still trapped has officials fearing an increased death toll.