A joint family of seven, including three school going children and a nine months pregnant woman, had a lucky escape when a 5,000 lt overhead water tank collapsed and destroyed their house at 9.15 am on Sunday in the Sagar City transit camp, Andheri West. The injured family was pulled out of the debris by alarmed neighbours, who rushed them to Cooper Hospital, where they are undergoing treatment for multiple injuries not serious in nature.

This reporter saw the entire ceiling of the first floor had crashed. Ankle high water covered the ground floor. A neighbour informed that there was a deafening sound that scared the entire transit camp, which houses over a thousand people, when the plastic tank crashed. Many people panicked. Some rescuers experienced electric shocks when they stepped into the water, due to the electrical fittings in the ground-plus-one house. They then shut the power supply to the house. There is another overhead water tank of similar size in the camp, which residents feel could be the source of another accident.