Heavy rains cause building collapses in Mumbai, claim four lives

The incessant rains have led to four people losing their lives in three separate incidents of building and wall collapses in the city While one labourer lost his life and five others were injured when an underconstruction building came crashing down in Cuffe Parade a wall collapse in Malad led to the death of an 11yearold boy In Sewri two men lost their lives when the slab of a building fell on themAlso read Building collapses in Colaba 1 dead and 5 injuredThe five labourers who sustained head injuries in the building collapse at Cuffe Parade are recuperating at St George Hospital in Fort PicsEmmanual KarbhariOn Saturday morning at around 10 am the ceiling of an underconstruction house in Ganesh Murti Nagar in Cuffe Parade collapsed when bricks and other construction material was loaded on it The residents rushed to rescue the six labourers who were working on the house While five of them were pulled out in the next 1520 minutes Mushraf Shaikh 18 was the last one to be found among the debris after which he was rushed to the staterun St George hospital in Fort Shaikh was declared dead on arrival ldquoI heard a loud thud after the roof collapsed and we immediately started pulling the labourers out of the debris However Shaikh was trapped inside and we found him after half an hourrdquo said Prashant Umape a residentThe six men hail from West Bengal and were hired by a private contractor Mangal Khanawjia The injured were Mohammed Kalam 45 Sudeep Hazara 29 Shaurat Ali 18 Yusuf Shaikh 39 and Menaryl Shaikh 33 An on duty doctor from the hospital said they sustained head injuries but were conscious while being admitted to the hospital ldquoTheir condition is stable as of now However one of them will be shifted to JJ hospital for a CT scan to rule out any further complicationsrdquo he saidShaikhrsquos cousin brother Abdarul Shaikh said that after the postmortem his body will be taken back to his village in West Bengal where his parents reside A subpolice inspector from Cuffe Parade police station where the case was registered on Saturday said that the contractor has been booked under section 304a of the IPC and further investigations are onIn Malad the heavy rains resulted in a portion of a wall of Wageshwari Mandir in Malad East collapsing at around 347 pm claiming the life of a 11yearold boy Sujit Pawar An official from the BMC disaster management said that his body was shifted to Kandivlirsquos Shatabdi hospital where a postmortem will be conductedAlso read Mumbai school does BMC a favour collapses before demolitionIn the third tragic incident two people lost their lives and one was seriously injured when the slab of a building came crashing down in Sewri The three men were sitting near a pan shop near the structure when the collapse took place The incident happened at around 11 pm on Friday at Jaibhim Nagar in Sewri The two deceased have been identified as Daya Shankar Mishra 60 and Rudraman Upadhyay 45 while the third person Tribhuvan Upadhyay 58 sustained serious head and leg injuries and is undergoing treatment at the JJ hospitalThe slab of a building came crashing down on three people in SewriAccording to cops ldquoTwo years ago the same building known as Lucky Mansion was declared dangerous by the BMC officials and belonged to a private firm called Abraham amp Sons Pvt Ltd The victim Tribhuvan had a pan shop in the building and was sitting with his brother Rudraman and relative Daya Shankar when the incident took placerdquoldquoI was sitting and having dinner with my brother and relative when suddenly the outer slab portion outside my shop came crashing down The slab had a crack through which water used to leak during monsoonrdquo said TribhuvanThe relatives of the victim said that Rudraman and Tribhuvan ran the pan shop at the ground floor of the building while Daya Shankar had come to Mumbai to meet the brothers They added that their native place is in Uttar Pradesh