Mumbai: A section of the heritage-listed Salvation Army building in Madanpura collapsed on Wednesday afternoon when children from a shelter run by the organisation were celebrating a birthday in another wing. The children were rescued safely, but a worker at the site is reported to have sustained severe injuries, and two senior church members who lived on the top floor lost their homes.

After the incident, members of the Salvation Army alleged that repairs that were being done without permission from the municipal authorities and without consulting the community had caused the collapse. The Salvation Army is an independent Protestant denomination with headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organisation is both a church and a charity group, with the nomenclature of its religious hierarch

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