Maharashtra: Four lifeless as setting up collapses in Thane, rescue operations underway

By PTI

THANE: The physique of an individual was recovered on Sunday from the particles of a two-storey setting up which collapsed in Bhiwandi metropolis of Maharashtra’s Thane district, taking the toll to 4, an official acknowledged.

Fifteen people had been nonetheless feared trapped, Thane Municipal Corporation’s Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant acknowledged.

Twelve people had been injured after the development collapsed like a pack of enjoying playing cards at 1.45 pm on Saturday at Wardhaman Compound in Valpada area, officers acknowledged.

The setting up had godowns on the underside and first flooring, whereas 4 households occupied the upper floor.

Some workers had been present on the underside floor when the development collapsed, Sawant acknowledged.

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) had been ending up the search and rescue operation, he acknowledged.

At spherical 10.30 am on Sunday, the NDRF and SDRF teams recovered the physique of an individual, inside the age group of 35 to 40 years, from the particles, Sawant instructed PTI.

The physique, which was however to be acknowledged, was despatched to a authorities hospital for postmortem, he acknowledged.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on the web site to oversee rescue operations after a two-storey setting up collapsed at Bhiwandi, in Thane. (Photo | PTI)

Earlier, one specific particular person, named Sunil Pisa (38), was rescued at spherical 8 am on Sunday from the particles and rushed to the IGM Hospital in Bhiwandi, Narpoli police station’s senior inspector Madan Ballal acknowledged.

A container and two tempos which had come to the godown for loading/unloading had been moreover crushed.

Sawant acknowledged the rescue teams have cleared the upper floor, nonetheless the ground floor and the first floor the place a whole lot of the workers had been working inside the godowns have not been cleared so far. “It is feared that nearly 15 persons might be trapped. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Everything will be clear only after these floors are cleared,” he acknowledged.

Ten fireplace engines, ambulances, vans, and earth-moving machines had been moreover pressed into the discount and rescue operation, he added.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde termed the incident as “most unfortunate” and visited the collapse web site along with the injured people current course of treatment in Bhiwandi’s IGM Hospital late Saturday evening time.

Bhiwandi Deputy Commissioner of Police Navnath Dhavle instructed PTI that offences beneath assorted sections of the Indian Penal Code have been registered in opposition to the development proprietor, Indrapal Patil.

No arrest has been made so far, he added.

Rescue work underway after collapse of the Bhiwandi Vardhaman Complex in Thane, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (Photo | PTI)

The setting up was about 10 years outdated and possibly could not take the load of a mobile tower simply currently put in on excessive of it, in line with a civic official.

CM Shinde instructed reporters that he has instructed Thane Collector Ashok Shingare and completely different authorities to instantly carry out a survey of the buildings declared ‘most dangerous’ inside the district. He moreover directed the officers to instantly shift the people occupying such buildings to safer places as a result of the monsoon was merely throughout the nook.

Shinde acknowledged cluster enchancment was the one reply to the problems arising on account of the damaging buildings.

At the IGM Hospital, CM Shinde enquired regarding the state of affairs of the injured people, along with two minor brothers, Prem Ravikumar Mahanto (7) and Prince Ravikumar Mahanto (5), who misplaced their mother Lalita Devi (26) inside the incident.

He consoled the two siblings and instructed them “we are here with you.”

Shinde has launched a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased, whereas medical payments of the injured may be borne by the state authorities.

THANE: The physique of an individual was recovered on Sunday from the particles of a two-storey setting up which collapsed in Bhiwandi metropolis of Maharashtra’s Thane district, taking the toll to 4, an official acknowledged.

Fifteen people had been nonetheless feared trapped, Thane Municipal Corporation’s Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant acknowledged.

Twelve people had been injured after the development collapsed like a pack of enjoying playing cards at 1.45 pm on Saturday at Wardhaman Compound in Valpada area, officers acknowledged.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The setting up had godowns on the underside and first flooring, whereas 4 households occupied the upper floor.

Some workers had been present on the underside floor when the development collapsed, Sawant acknowledged.

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) had been ending up the search and rescue operation, he acknowledged.

At spherical 10.30 am on Sunday, the NDRF and SDRF teams recovered the physique of an individual, inside the age group of 35 to 40 years, from the particles, Sawant instructed PTI.

The physique, which was however to be acknowledged, was despatched to a authorities hospital for postmortem, he acknowledged.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on the web site to oversee rescue operations after a two-storey setting up collapsed at Bhiwandi, in Thane. (Photo | PTI)

Earlier, one specific particular person, named Sunil Pisa (38), was rescued at spherical 8 am on Sunday from the particles and rushed to the IGM Hospital in Bhiwandi, Narpoli police station’s senior inspector Madan Ballal acknowledged.

A container and two tempos which had come to the godown for loading/unloading had been moreover crushed.

Sawant acknowledged the rescue teams have cleared the upper floor, nonetheless the ground floor and the first floor the place a whole lot of the workers had been working inside the godowns have not been cleared so far. “It is feared that nearly 15 persons might be trapped. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Everything will be clear only after these floors are cleared,” he acknowledged.

Ten fireplace engines, ambulances, vans, and earth-moving machines had been moreover pressed into the discount and rescue operation, he added.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde termed the incident as “most unfortunate” and visited the collapse web site along with the injured people current course of treatment in Bhiwandi’s IGM Hospital late Saturday evening time.

Bhiwandi Deputy Commissioner of Police Navnath Dhavle instructed PTI that offences beneath assorted sections of the Indian Penal Code have been registered in opposition to the development proprietor, Indrapal Patil.

No arrest has been made so far, he added.

Rescue work underway after collapse of the Bhiwandi Vardhaman Complex in Thane, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (Photo | PTI)

The setting up was about 10 years outdated and possibly could not take the load of a mobile tower simply currently put in on excessive of it, in line with a civic official.

CM Shinde instructed reporters that he has instructed Thane Collector Ashok Shingare and completely different authorities to instantly carry out a survey of the buildings declared ‘most dangerous’ inside the district. He moreover directed the officers to instantly shift the people occupying such buildings to safer places as a result of the monsoon was merely throughout the nook.

Shinde acknowledged cluster enchancment was the one reply to the problems arising on account of the damaging buildings.

At the IGM Hospital, CM Shinde enquired regarding the state of affairs of the injured people, along with two minor brothers, Prem Ravikumar Mahanto (7) and Prince Ravikumar Mahanto (5), who misplaced their mother Lalita Devi (26) inside the incident.

He consoled the two siblings and instructed them “we are here with you.”

Shinde has launched a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased, whereas medical payments of the injured may be borne by the state authorities.