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- Seven Laborers Have Died After The Slab Of The Basement Of An Under construction Building Collapsed Near Shastri Wadia Bungalow In Yerwada Police Station Area Of Pune.
Pune10 hours ago
In the accident that took place late on Thursday in Pune, many laborers got trapped in an iron slab like this. Firefighters could barely pull them out.
A major accident has happened in Pune late on Thursday night. During the construction of a mall here, 6 laborers died when an iron slab fell. 2 are seriously injured. Earlier the death of 7 people was reported. Some others were also injured, who have been admitted to a nearby hospital. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also expressed grief over this accident. He tweeted his condolences to the families of the deceased.
The accident happened near Shastri Wadia Bungalow in Yerwada area. A mall was being built here. The iron slab in its basement collapsed. Pune DCP Rohidas Pawar said that the precautions that should have been taken during the construction may not have been taken.
After the accident, the bodies of the laborers trapped in the iron slab were trapped in this way.
Local MLA Sunil Tangre said that most of the dead are residents of Bihar.
The accident took place in this building in Yerwada area of Pune.
workers were working till late night
Traffic Police Commissioner Rahul Shriram told that the work was going on till late night in the building, when suddenly a huge slab of iron fell. When the accident happened, 10 laborers were working there. Most of the laborers who died are said to be from Bihar.
Local MLA Sunil Tangre said, “I have come to know that the construction work is going on 24 hours a day at this site. So we don’t know for how long these laborers were working. They must be tired, which may have caused an accident. The other laborers present here have informed me that the injured are from Bihar. The authorities have started investigation into the reasons behind the collapse of the building.”
The building collapsed in Mumbai’s Bandra on January 26 last month
In Maharashtra, on January 26 last month, a multi-storey building collapsed in Bandra, Mumbai. In which 7 people died due to being buried.
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