Updated On: 05 August, 2015 02:36 PM IST | | Ankoor Anvekar
<p>The Sawants and the Bhats were very close and all of them, married daughters included, had assembled to celebrate the birthday of Arun Sawant’s granddaughter Anaya (5) on Sunday; nine members of both families, including the little girl, were killed when the building collapsed the next night</p>

Out of the five families residing in the Krishna Niwas building, two the Sawants and the Bhats were very close, and all the members of both families had gathered there on Sunday to celebrate the birthday of little Anaya (5), the granddaughter of the Sawant family patriarch, Arun (62).

Ramchandra and Meera Bhat with their youngest daughter Rachita