Tag: Maharashtra building collapse

  • Two dead, one injured after slab of building collapses in Maharashtra’s Thane

    By PTI

    THANE: Two people were killed and another person was injured after the slab of a 25-year-old four-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Sunday morning, civic officials said.

    The slab of a flat on the third floor of ‘C-wing’ of the Khatri Apartments, located in Rabodi area, came crashing down on its ground floor at around 6 am, Thane Municipal Corporation’s (TMC) deputy commissioner Ashok Burpulle said.

    After being alerted, a team of local firemen, police and the TMC’s regional disaster management cell (RDMC) rushed to the spot and pulled out three people from the debris, two of whom died in hospital, he said.

    An official from the TMC’s disaster control room said that the deceased were identified as Rameez Shaikh (32) and Goss Tamboli (38), while the third person was under treatment. The Rabodi-based housing complex collectively has 73 flats, Burpulle said, adding that after the incident, occupants of all 24 houses in its C-wing were shifted to a safer place as a precautionary measure.

    The civic body’s RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said that following the incident, “the ‘C-wing’ of the 25-year-old building was sealed”. Meanwhile, Thane guardian minister Eknath Shinde, who visited the site later in the day, said cluster development of dangerous and dilapidated buildings was the only solution to such incidents.

    The building had been declared dangerous but occupants were reluctant to move, Shinde said, adding that compensation would be given as per government norms to the kin of the deceased. “The only permanent solution to this problem of dilapidated and dangerous buildings is cluster development, which has been approved for Thane city. Elected representatives, civic officials and residents must meet to finalise development works,” the state minister and senior Shiv Sena leader said.

    TMC Assistant Commissioner Mahesh Aher told PTI that the entire building, comprising three wings with 73 flats, has been sealed and an audit of the structure would be conducted by engineers.

    Meanwhile, the TMC, in a release issued in the evening, said occupants had been given repeated instructions to vacate the building, as it had been declared dangerous post an inspection in 2013, and notices were also issued, all of which were ignored.

    The release said Rabodi police was asked to get the building vacated, while the water supply, electricity and drainage departments had been told to disconnect supply.

    An audit had suggested immediate repairs and the TMC had given three reminders to the owners of the building to get it repaired, the release said, adding that some 85 per cent repair work had been completed while 15 per cent was pending.

  • Maharashtra building collapse: FIR against four persons

    By PTI
    THANE: Police have registered an FIR against four people in connection with the collapse of a building in Bhiwandi town here in which one person was killed and six others were injured, an official said on Tuesday.

    The single-storey building, where a godown of an online goods delivery firm was located, collapsed on Monday morning in Bhiwandi’s Harihar Compound here in Maharashtra.

    A 35-year-old security guard was killed, while six others, including three minors, received injuries, a civic official earlier said.

    The Narpoli police registered an FIR against four persons on Monday night under Indian Penal Code Sections 304 (2) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 337, 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others), 427 (mischief) and 34 (common intention).

    The accused include the godown owners, Suryakant Patil, Ramchandra Patil and Mahananda Patil, and one person from a company which built the structure, the official from Narpoli police station said.

    No arrest has been made so far, the official said, adding that they are conducting a probe into the incident.

    The 15-year-old building belonged to a private firm which used it as a godown for online delivery of goods, Thane civic body’s regional disaster management control cell chief Santosh Kadam said on Monday.

  • Maharashtra: 1 dead, 5 injured as building collapses in Thane

    By PTI
    THANE: At least one person was killed and five others were injured after a building collapsed in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra’s Thane district on Monday morning, a civic official said.

    Search and rescue operations are still on at the site as it is suspected that some more people may be trapped under the debris, he said.

    The single-storey building, where a godown of an online goods delivery firm is located, collapsed around 10.30 am in Harihar Compound at Mankoli junction in Bhiwandi, Thane civic body’s regional disaster management control cell chief Santosh Kadam said.

    Personnel of the Thane district rescue force, disaster management cell, and fire services officials from Bhiwandi and Thane rushed to the spot, he said.

    A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) also reached the spot at around 12 noon and led the rescue and relief operation, he said.

    The body of a security guard, identified as Saurabh Tripathi, was recovered from the debris, Kadam said.

    Besides, five persons were rescued from the rubble and have been hospitalised, he said, adding that some more people may be trapped under the debris.

    The building belongs to a private firm which uses it as a godown for online delivery of goods, he said.