Workers clear the debris of Hussaini building in Bhendi Bazar on Friday. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar

Ten days before it crumbled to the ground, a few residents of Bhendi Bazar's Hussaini building had met Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust's head of tenant management (residential) Shoaib Hashmi with a request to repair the dilapidated structure, but there was no response from him. Sources said four tenants had approached Hashmi, and three of them are now dead, along with the 30 others killed when the 117-year-old structure collapsed on Thursday morning.