Maharashtra: Death toll in slabs collapse incident rises to seven

The loss of life toll within the slabs collapse incident that occurred at a constructing in Ulhasnagar city of Maharashtra’s Thane district rose to seven with the restoration of yet another physique, an official mentioned on Saturday.
Thane district guardian minister Ekanth Shinde mentioned the state authorities would supply monetary help of Rs 5 lakh to the kin of every deceased, who embrace three girls and one teenage boy.
The slabs of 5 flats in Sai Shakti constructing, a ground-plus-five-storey construction situated at Nehru Chowk, collapsed on Friday night time.
As per the knowledge given by the authorities late final night time, six individuals had died within the incident and 4 to 5 others had been feared trapped underneath the particles.
“With the recovery of one more body from the debris, the fatality count in the incident has now gone up to seven. Three women, as many number of men and one boy died in the mishap,” Santosh Kadam, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) mentioned.
The deceased belonged to 2 households residing within the constructing, he mentioned.
There had been 29 flats on this 26-year-old constructing, Kadam mentioned.
“Around 9 pm, the drawing room slabs of five flats – right from the top floor up to the bottom one – caved in. On being alerted, the personnel of the RDMC and the Thane Disaster Response Force (TDRF) rushed to the scene and launched a search and rescue operation,” he mentioned.
The operation was referred to as off at 12.46 am on Saturday following the restoration of the seventh physique, the official mentioned.
The deceased had been recognized as Punit Bajomal Panjwani (17), Dinesh Bajomal Panjwani (40), Deepak Bajomal Panjwani (42), Mohini Bajomal Panjwani (65), Krishna Induchand Bajaj (24), Amruta Induchand Bajaj (54) and Lovely Bajaj (20), he added.
Minister Ekanth Shinde rushed to the spot to take inventory of the state of affairs.
Talking to reporters within the wee hours of Saturday, Shinde mentioned he has knowledgeable in regards to the incident to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
“The state government would give Rs 5 lakh to the kin of each deceased,” he mentioned, including that that is the second such incident within the space within the current previous.

“In 1994-95, the local civic body had demolished some of the unauthorised buildings by pulling down their slabs, pillars and rods. However, it has been observed that some developers welded the iron rods, recast the slabs and reconstructed the buildings. Such structures are now crashing down and claiming innocent lives,” he mentioned.

He directed Ulhasnagar municipal commissioner Raja Dayanidi to shift the occupants of such precarious buildings to safer locations on conflict footing and likewise provoke strict motion in opposition to such builders.