India, July 28 -- A 13-year-old girl was killed after a portion of a residential building's balcony collapsed in Mumbra on Monday evening, which led to a rescue operation that pulled six people from the debris and forced the evacuation of the entire building.

The incident occurred around 7pm at the 37-year-old ground-plus-four-storey Faiyaz Building near Janta Bakery on Mumbra Dargah Road. According to the Thane Municipal Corporation's (TMC) Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC), the second-floor balcony gave way and crashed onto the first-floor balcony, trapping six people beneath the debris.

The RDMC said it received a call about the collapse at around 7.15pm, following which teams from the fire brigade, disaster management cell an...