TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ At least 19 people were killed and 14 injured after a four-storey building, which had been declared as dilapidated once but later held to be ‘reparable’, collapsed in Mumbai’s Kurla area around Monday midnight.
Following the incident, another building in the complex of four buildings, Naik Nagar Housing Society, was evacuated as it too was deemed dangerous, and was later demolished by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
According to senior BMC officials, residents of the building, constructed in 1973, had undertaken to carry out repairs, but apparently no repairs were carried out. Fire Brigade, police, civic officials as well as two teams of the National Disaster Response Force carried out search and rescue operations.
NDRF’s deputy commandant Ashish Kumar told that the search and rescue operation ended around 6.30 pm, but the work of clearing debris was still continuing. A total of 33 persons were rescued from the debris since Monday midnight. Of those injured, four persons were still undergoing treatment at hospitals, while others were discharged, BMC officials said.
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