Mumbai: A baby has been pulled alive from rubble hours after the collapse of a five-storeyed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation residential building in Mazgaon dock area.

The collapse killed at least 25 people and sent rescuers racing to reach dozens of people feared trapped in the rubble.

Up to 90 people are feared dead – with the bodies of 25 people having been recovered already.

Relatives of the missing wailed and clung to one another as heavy machinery lifted the largest slabs of concrete away.

A total of 65 National Disaster Response Force personnel alongwith two dog squads worked at the scene of mishap since morning, alongwith 12 fire tenders and four ambulances.

About 21 families, who were primarily BMC’s tenants lived in the 30-year-old structure, which was categorised as a “C-2” building, which meant that it was in need of urgent repairs.

It is the latest of several Mumbai building collapses this year.

In April, at least 72 people died when an illegally constructed building fell down on the outskirts of the city.

And two months later, at least 10 people, including five children, died in when a three-story building collapsed in the city.