By Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra for CNN
New Delhi (CNN)The bodies of five people have been pulled from the rubble of a five-story apartment building that collapsed Monday in the Indian state of Maharashtra, leaving 12 people still trapped inside.
A four-year-old boy was rescued alive from the scene Tuesday, according to Anupam Srivastava, head of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Maharashtra unit.
Six people have now died in the incident after NDRF workers also recovered the bodies of three men and two women on Tuesday.
The building collapsed at about 6:30 p.m. on Monday. The third, fourth and fifth floors were all “completely collapsed,” according to Srivastava, but officials are hopeful that air pockets in the parking lot and on the first floor have allowed people to survive.
Some 70 of the 97 residents managed to escape. Eight were rescued by the NDRF, of which one man later succumbed to a heart attack.
State and federal first responders are using specially trained dogs to help dig through the remains of the structure, which is located in Raigad district’s Mahad city, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Mumbai, and believe that it’s possible survivors still remain.
Residents told emergency workers that when they ran out of the building, the pillars in the parking lot were “still vibrating,” meaning they could have withstood the collapse.
Srivastava said “it is possible that the first floor may be intact,” but that responders “can’t see it below the debris.”
“We expect the people who are trapped to be on the first or second floor or in the parking of the building,” Srivastava said. “We are going through the vents and are using the canines to check, they smell live victims so if someone is trapped in the debris it will indicate it to us.” Read more from CNN.
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