Mumbai : Another Building Collapse, This Time In Bhiwandi .

Every year many reports of building collapsing made to the headlines, recently we have been hearing a lot of them about bridges and the building collapsing due to several reasons. One more such incident happened today at 3:40 AM in Bhiwandi town of Mumbai.

At least ten people were killed and more than 20 rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Maharashtra’ Bhiwandi town, reported Mumbai Police.

“We heard a noise and I noticed that there were cracks on the floor,” 35-year-old resident, Sharif Ansari told Reuters. “I woke up my neighbours and my wife and we rushed everyone down,” Ansari said he went back up to alert more people and was on the first floor with some other residents when the building came down. “We jumped from there and managed to escape but there are at least another 60 people trapped,” he said.

Such a tragic incident. Please make an immediate audit for many such old buildings in Bhiwandi @swachh_bhiwandi @rais_shk @MaheshChoughule @KapilPatilMP @MayorPatil https://t.co/4IO7T2xno7

— Bhiwandi City (@CityBhiwandi) September 21, 2020

Two NDRF teams are leading the rescue operation and have been able to rescue 25 from the debris, with more than forty emergency workers.

NDRF Director General Satya Pradhan has assured that more teams will join the efforts.

Among the 10 people that are reported dead, 7 are children,

The building was approximately 40 years old with 40 flats and around 150 residents, an official said.

“The Building was on dangerous building list and notice was issued by the civic body to vacate it” [Dr. Pankaj Ashiya , Commissioner, Bhiwandi Nizampura City Municipal Corporation].

The residents alleges that even after they were served notices the landlords don’t want to renovate the buildings.

According to Maharashtra housing and area development authority between 1971 and 2018 there have been 3528 building collapse incidents killing over 800 people, reports The Quint.

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