Mumbai: Efforts by rescue workers in the congested Pimpripada area of north Mumbai to get a 15-year- old girl out of the debris of a wall which collapsed, proved futile as she was brought out dead. The toll in the wall collapse tragedy rose to 19, with the body of the girl, Sanchita Ganore, being brought out of the debris in the afternoon, almost 12 hours after she was trapped beneath it.
A doctor on the spot said the medical team tried their best but couldn’t save her. “Her legs were stuck in the debris, so it took long to rescue her. We tried our best to bring her up alive but could not,” he said. A rescue worker said Sanchita had been crying for help and asking for water. “Shortly after the wall collapsed, we rescued a child from underneath the debris. This girl Sanchita had been crying for help since 2 am,” the worker, a local resident, said.
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