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Rescuers have found one dead body and pulled out nearly 60 survivors from a collapsed residential building in central India, an official said, according to The Associated Press report.

Workers were still looking for more than 20 people feared trapped in the rubble of the five-story building that collapsed on Monday evening, senior official Nidhi Chaudhari said.

It occurred in Mahad, about 170 kilometres (105 miles) from India’s financial capital of Mumbai in the central state of Maharashtra.

Dozens of rescuers from the National Disaster Relief Force worked overnight with tools to pry apart the debris, while some of the grievously injured extracted from the wreckage were hospitalised.The building had more than 40 apartments and authorities are yet to ascertain the cause of the collapse. An investigation into the collapse has been ordered, the source said.