Rescue teams recovered the body of the last missing person in the Moshi waste processing unit collapse near Pune in the wee hours of Sunday (July 12, 2026), taking the death toll in the tragedy to nine, officials said.

Meanwhile, a senior official at the waste-processing plant described the July 8 incident as an “act of God”.

The three-storey administrative building of a Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant run by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation at Moshi in Pune district collapsed after the adjacent mound of garbage fell onto the structure like a landslide.

The body of Waman Kasbe, the last missing person, was recovered from the rubble in the wee hours of Sunday, raising the death toll to nine, while 14 persons have been rescued, officials said.

The search operation was later called off.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday evening after meeting the families of the victims, Mahendra Ananthula, Group President, Antony Waste Group, expressed grief over the loss of lives, saying those killed and injured were “part of our family”.

“This was something like an act of God, a natural calamity… somehow we could not, no one can predict it. The kind of rainfall witnessed over the last four to five days could not have been predicted. Similar incidents have occurred in different parts of the country over the past week,” he said.

The official said the company would bear the entire medical expenses of those injured in the incident.

He also announced a compensation package of ₹25 lakh for the families of each deceased victim through the company’s contribution and insurance policy.

In addition, the company will offer a full-time job to one immediate family member of each deceased person and bear the education expenses of their minor children, he said.

“Two more persons have been rescued from the debris of a building that collapsed at a waste management plant in Pimpri Chinchwad near Pune, taking the total number of survivors to nine,” officials said on Thursday (July 9, 2026).

A three-storey building located over a waste-to-energy plant at Moshi in the area collapsed after a huge mound of garbage crashed onto it on Wednesday (July 8, 2026), afternoon with around 18 people trapped under the rubble.

“Seven of the victims were pulled out of the debris hours after the accident. After midnight, two more persons were rescued from the rubble and taken to the hospital. They are in stable condition,” officials said.

“A multi-agency rescue operation is under way to save the remaining victims,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Ganesh Ingale.

“Employees of Antony Lara Renewable Energy, which operates the 14MW power plant in collaboration with the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, were among those trapped,” an official had said on Wednesday (July 8, 2026).

The Pimpri Chinchwad civic body said in a release that 23 persons were initially believed to be trapped under the debris, of whom five managed to come out safely. A rescue operation was subsequently launched to extricate the others.

The operation was jointly carried out by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Indian Army, the municipal fire brigade, the fire brigade of the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the police administration. “Rescue operations were continuing on a war footing to evacuate the remaining people,” it added.

Moshi Pradhikaran is a planned neighbourhood in the Pimpri-Chinchwad city near Pune. “The building stood next to a mountain-like pile of legacy [old] waste. Prima facie, it appears that due to heavy rains, the waste mound became loose and collapsed onto the building like a landslide,” Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi had said earlier.