The front side of a six-storey MHADA building on Lamington Road collapsed on Tuesday evening injuring one. Many others are feared to be trapped in the rubble.
Theu00a0front side of a six-storey MHADA building on Lamington Road collapsed on Tuesday evening injuring one. Many others are feared to be trapped in the rubble.
Part of building 294/296 Yusuf gave way at around 6.45 pm. The injured woman was rushed to Nair Hospital where she is presently in the ICU. Firefighters were busy clearing rubble from the site of the incident.
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MHADA official Vaishali Chandan Singh confirmed that it was a cessed building and the permission for redevelopment had already been granted to a new architect.
However, she did not give any more details on the structural stability of the building stating that MHADA was investigating the matter.
According to Azhar Bangdiwala, a resident of adjacent building, the neighbourhood was alerted when they heard a big bang. "By the time I got out of my flat and climbed three floors down, the building had turned into a rubble."
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