The death toll in the lift collapse incident in Maharashtra’s Thane rose to seven, the Thane Municipal Corporation said on Monday.
The deceased persons have been identified as Mahendra Chaupal (32), Rupesh Kumar Das (21), Haroon Shaikh (47), Mithlesh (35), Karidas (38) and Sunil Kumar Das (21).
The seventh deceased has not been identified yet, the officials said.
According to the Thane Municipal Corporation officials, there were a total of seven labourers aboard the lift and all of them have been declared dead.
