Tragedy befell a three-story structure in Navi Mumbai’s Sector 19, Shahbaz Village, when the building came crashing down on Saturday, killing one person and seriously injuring two others. The mishap happened during a period of downpours in some regions of Maharashtra, which was already in tension.
This structure is referred to as Indira Niwash. It was constructed in 2013 and contained 17 flats. The six-story structure came crumbling down around 5 a.m., requiring the police, fire brigades, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to launch a rescue mission.
The information relevant to this incident was secured from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner, Kailas Shinde. ”The building came down around 5 am. It was a G+3 building. Two people have been pulled out alive, and two are believed to be stuck under the debris. The NDRF team is at the spot, and the operation is on,” he added.
The two people who were saved have been taken to a hospital, and their condition is said to be stable. However, officials are concerned that more people may be fully under the debris since rescue operations are still being conducted.
It is a 10-year-old building. An investigation is on, and action will be taken against the building’s owner,Shinde added. There are rising speculations of negligence or structural deficiency that might have led to the building’s collapse.
Notably, most of the building’s residents had retreated when the structure began shaking. Approximately 40 adults and 13 children were successfully rescued to the nearby shelter shed before the building yielded to pressure.
This sad occurrence happened a week after a similar occurrence in South Mumbai where one woman of 80 years was killed and four others wounded by a portion of the balcony of a four-storied residential building threatened to collapse.
The unfortunate incident that befell the Indira Niwas building has again revitalized the need for proper building codes, building inspections, and building by-laws that would check on such calamities in the future.
