Rescuers have pulled out alive an injured woman from the wreckage of a Mumbai tower block - 36 hours after it collapsed leaving as many as 72 dead and 70 injured.
She was dragged from the building on Saturday morning after rescue workers heard her voice and used camera equipment to pinpoint her location under the rubble.
A 10-month old infant was pulled from the debris on Friday.
Most of the dead and missing are migrant construction workers who were living on the site in Thane, on the outskirts of the city, with their families.
At least 17 of those killed are children.
A 10-month-old child rescued from the rubble The building collapsed "like a pack of cards within three to four seconds," one witness said on Thursday night.
As rescue teams combed the rubble for survivors immediately after the collapse, two young children were plucked out alive to cries of "God is great".
Rescue workers with sledgehammers, gasoline-powered saws and hydraulic jacks struggled to break through the tower of rubble in their search for possible survivors. Six bulldozers were brought to the scene.
More than 20 people remained missing and three floors of the building still needed to be searched, said R S Rajesh, an official with the National Disaster Response Force who was at the scene.
A toddler is pulled out alive from the wreckage "All the three floors are sandwiched ... so it is very difficult for us," he said, adding that rescuers were continuing to pull survivors from the wreckage.
An investigation has now been launched into what has been described as one of the worst incidents of its kind in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
The collapse is being blamed on shoddy construction and unstable foundations.
The building was only supposed to be four storeys high but three extra levels had been illegally constructed on top and an eighth was being added when it collapsed, said police.
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble Police said they have arrested the builder and his associates. They face a number of charges including manslaughter.
A local resident who gave his name as Ramlal said: "The building collapsed like a pack of cards within three to four seconds.
"Only labourers used to stay there. No rich person or well-to-do family stayed here. Only poor people stayed here."
The neighbourhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2,000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Malvi, the town spokesman.
"Notices have been served several times for such illegal construction, sometimes notices are sent 10 times for the same building," he said.
A crowd watches the rescuers at work GR Khairnar, a former top Mumbai official, said government officials who allowed the illegal construction should be tried along with the builders.
"There are a lot of people involved (in illegal construction) - builders, government machinery, police, municipal corporation - everybody is involved in this process," he told CNN-IBN television.
As the economy has grown, so has the appetite for property and the quick profit that comes from unauthorised construction.
In one of the worst collapses, nearly 70 people were killed when an apartment building in a congested New Delhi neighbourhood crumbled in November 2010.
That building was two floors higher than legally allowed and its foundations appeared to have been weakened by water damage.
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