One person was killed, two injured and one feared trapped and around 50 rescued after a three storey building collapsed in Navi Mumbai’s Shahbaz village on Saturday morning.
Police, fire brigade and National Disaster Response Force team were present at the spot and carried out the rescue operation.
Kailas Shinde, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner, said the building collapsed around 5am. “This a G+3 building. The Shahbaz village villages falls under Belapur ward. There were 13 flats in the building. Two persons have been rescued and two are likely trapped. NDRF teams are at the spot. A rescue operation is underway,” Kailas Shinde told reporters.
Kailas Shinde further said that the two persons who were rescued have been admitted to a hospital and their condition said to be stable.
“It is a 10-year-old building. Investigation is on. Action will be taken against the owner of the building,” said the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner.
Earlier this week, an 80 year old woman was killed and four others were injured after a portion of a balcony of a four storey residential building in South Delhi collapsed.
Rubinnisa Manzil, where the incident occurred on Saturday last week, is on Sleater Road near the Grant Road railway station, a fire brigade official said. The incident took place around 11am, he said.
This incident adds to the ongoing concerns about building safety in Mumbai, where several collapses have occurred in recent years, often resulting in multiple fatalities. A previous collapse in Kurla resulted in at least 19 deaths, highlighting the persistent risks associated with aging and poorly maintained structures in the area
Another Death in Gujrat
On Wednesday, police reported that an elderly woman and her two granddaughters were killed when a crumbling three-storey building collapsed in Jam Khambhalia, Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district.
The collapse happened on Tuesday evening in the Gagwani Fali area during heavy rainfall in the Saurashtra region. Rescue teams, including the NDRF, police, and fire department, worked for nearly six hours to recover the bodies and rescue five other individuals. The victims were identified as Kesharben Kanjaria (65), Pritiben Kanjaria (15), and Payalben Kanjaria (18).
