Two people were rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna during the early hours of Wednesday. The two labourers were trapped under the debris after the collapse but were rescued later. Abhishek Gehlot, Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, Satna, while talking to news agency ANI said, “We received information that 2 labourers were trapped under the debris. Rescue operations were conducted and we have successfully rescued both of them.”
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According to a report of the Hindustan Times, renovation work was going on at the site when the building collapsed.
Satna MLA, Siddharth Kushwaha, arrived at the spot following the collapse and interacted with the media. While talking to the reporters, he said, “As per the information we have received, some renovation work was going on, and amid that, this building collapsed. It’s not clear how many are trapped inside; rescue operations are underway,” the Hindustan Times reported.
Further details are awaited into the matter.
Earlier on September 28, a man and a two-month-old girl died when the floor of the basement of an under-construction building collapsed on them in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The deceased were identified as Mukadam, 30, who was a labourer and a girl named Aishya.
Police officials while talking to the news agency PTI said that 14 labourers got injured in the unfortunate incident. All injured were taken to a nearby hospital where they were undergoing treatment.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Sayed Ali Abbas told PTI, “Some labourers who worked at the site used to live in shanties in the basement. As the floor collapsed, the labourers were buried under the rubble in their sleep.”