The bodies of Manoj Chansoria, a former general manager of Mumbai’s Air Traffic Control, and his wife Anita were found in their car, a red Tata Harrier, at the site of the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse early on Thursday morning.

The couple had stopped to refuel while driving to Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, at the time of the incident. With more than 70 survivors rescued from the site of the tragedy, which claimed 16 lives, an almost-three-day rescue operation involving the fire brigade, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the police ended on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, Bhavesh Bhinde, the owner of the deadly hoarding was arrested by the Mumbai police in Udaipur.