In Mumbai, the financial hub of India, a billboard collapsed during a strong storm, leaving at least 60 people injured and 12 dead, according to officials on Monday.
Rescuers scrambled to locate any survivors at a gas station in the east of the city after the signs fell, burying hundreds of people beneath. An excavator was searching through the debris.
According to Gaurav Chauhan, an inspector with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), eight bodies had already been pulled from the debris.