India, July 13 -- The nearly 84-hour search and rescue operation at Moshi garbage depot ended in the early hours of Sunday after rescuers recovered the body of the last missing worker from beneath a mound of garbage, taking the death toll in the tragedy to nine.

The last victim, identified as Waman Kasbe, 50, of Moshi, was found at around 1 am beneath the garbage heap adjacent to the collapsed administrative building. He was rushed to Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) where doctors declared him dead.

With the recovery of Kasbe's body, all 23 people who were in the administrative building of the waste-to-energy plant when a massive mound of garbage fell on it Wednesday afternoon, have now been accounted for bringing one of the ...