Mumbai, July 17 -- In a second major rain-related mishap in Maharashtra in a little over a fortnight, at least 11 persons were killed and eight others injured when a 100-year-old dilapidated four-storey building collapsed at the congested Dongi locality in south Mumbai.

Indications available late on Tuesday suggested that the toll in the mishap might go up as about 40 persons are feared trapped under the debris of the ill-fated building. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Mumbai Fire Brigade continued their search and rescue operations till late in the night.

The 80-year-old Kesarbai building - which in July last year had been classified in structural audit submitted to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ...