{{The death toll in the collapse of a building in a Mumbai suburb rose to 72 people amid expectations that no one pulled out of the debris would be found alive.}}
The two-day rescue operation in Thane would end on Saturday, police said, confirming that they had pulled out 20 bodies overnight.
Most bodies have been recovered, but some people might still be trapped in the debris, said Sandeep Malvi, a spokesman for the local municipal corporation.
A section of the seven-storey unfinished building, home mostly to labourers working on the site, first collapsed late on Thursday evening before the entire structure came down.
Police officer Dahi Phale said that rescue workers with sledgehammers, chainsaws and hydraulic jacks worked through Friday night to break through the tower of rubble in their search for possible survivors.
Six bulldozers were brought to the scene.
National Disaster Management Authority volunteers managed to rescue an elderly woman from the collapsed building late on Friday.
She had been trapped for several hours under the debris.
The victims were workers and members of their families who were living in some of the still-unfinished areas of the building.
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