# Bhiwandi building collapse kills nine, rescue operation on 2026-08-17T23:47:36+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets (3 source reports) At least nine people have died after a portion of a four-storey building collapsed late on Thursday night in Bhiwandi, Thane district, Maharashtra. Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and Bhiwandi Fire Brigade are searching for more people feared trapped under the debris. The Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation had previously declared the Kohinoor Building in Balaji Nagar 'unsafe'. According to officials, residents heard loud cracking sounds around 9 pm, and many families evacuated. The 'B' wing of the building collapsed around 11.30 pm while some occupants and workers were still inside. Five workers carrying out repair work and six occupants were reported missing. The Deccan Herald reports that a separate landslide on Ghodbunder Road in Thane on Monday evening caused no casualties, with authorities clearing the debris swiftly. The bodies have been sent to IGM hospital for identification. Rescue operations, aided by sniffer dogs and JCB excavators, continue. The exact cause of the collapse is not yet known. ## Coverage - thehansindia.com - thehansindia.com (2) - deccanherald.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources. Last updated 2026-08-18T07:13:23+00:00. Tags: Bhiwandi, Kohinoor Building, Maharashtra, NDRF, Thane Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/bhiwandi-building-collapse-death-toll-rises-to-nine-rescue-on/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/bhiwandi-building-collapse-death-toll-rises-to-nine-rescue-on/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/