March 23, 2021
The collapsed building was located
Three people died while nine others were injured after a four-storied building,
which was an illegal structure, collapsed in Bhiwandi’s Navi Basti area on
Friday. The residents claim that the Bhiwandi-Nizampur City Municipal
Corporation (BNCMC) would come to demolish the slums, but would turn a blind eye
to the illegal structures in the area.According to the disaster management team,
the deceased are Rukhasar Khan (1
, Ashfaq Khan (3
and Jaiburnisa Ansari
(61).The incident took place at around 8:30 in the morning when a majority of
the families residing in the building China
CAGE NUT were sound asleep. Thankfully, nobody was present so nothing
happened. While three of the injured are at IGS hospital, the remaining were
taken to the Thane Municipal hospital as they have serious injuries. More than
10 people were trapped inside the debris and were later rescued by two teams
belonging to the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) by evening and rushed
to the nearby Indira Gandhi Smruti Hospital (IGS). Mahesh Nalawade, Deputy
Commandant, NDRF said, "It took time because there was no space for us. Also, it
was situated at a distance from the main road, making it difficult for the
ambulances, fire engines and heavy machinery to make it inside.
The collapsed
building was located between two structures in a very congested format.The
incident took place at around 8:30 in the morning when a majority of the
families residing in the building were sound asleep. "The building adjoining the
collapsed structure also fell some months back. It was too congested so we
couldn’t bring our machines in to remove the debris.The injured are Rehan Khan
(6), Asif Khan (21), Salma Ansari (55), Yukub Khan (5
, Sabira Pathan (45),
Imrana Khan (22), Khawaja Sayyed (55), Shakeel Ansari (37) and Khan Aabid Yakub
(21).The residents were alerted by the noise and vacated the building. But now
this one is a message to the corporation that they should stop illegal
buildings," said a resident."When The Asian Age visited the spot, it found that
the nearby structures too are in a bad state.According to the rescue team, they
were seriously handicapped in their operations by the lack of space
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