The site of crash at the Niranjan Compound at Khadak Road in Bhiwandi

A 59-year-old man was killed after a ground plus three-storey building collapsed in the early hours of Friday morning in Bhiwandi. The building had been evacuated over eight months ago and it had also been declared dilapidated by the Thane municipal Corporation (TMC). The collapse took place at 12.55 am when Mohammad Kalim Momin, a driver by profession, was asleep on the ground floor of the unoccupied area.