While the second building collapse in the suburbs this week, in a slum populated area in Malad calls for attention, the BMC has claimed that all these places are not checked by them, as they are on land parcels owned by different agencies. Most of the houses in slums stand without any strong support on the ground, endangering the lives of the residents.

On Monday, part of a building collapsed in a thickly populated slum pocket in Bandra east, where one person was killed and 5 others injured. On Wednesday night at Malad’s Malwani area, a ground plus three structure collapsed on neighbouring structures, killing 11 people and injuring seven.