A building collapsed in Pimpri Chinchwad, Pune district, leaving 15 people feared trapped, according to a local reports on Wednesday. Rescue operations are currently underway.
A PTI report stated that the collapse took place due to a mound of waste slammed into the building during heavy rains in the area. The three-storey administrative building was situated near a legacy waste processing site at Moshi.
As per reports, the building contained 20 people when it collapsed with four escaping and 16 employees of a private organisation feared trapped. Rescue operations consisted of the fire brigade working alongside the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). The rescue teams have managed to establish contact with the people trapped inside.
Heavy rainfall in the past two led to the considerable pile of “legacy waste” getting unstable and crashing into the building, according to Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi’s statement to the press.
At least 10 people have been killed in rain related incidents in a week. Six people, including five children, died when a portion of a three-storey chawl collapsed in the Janata Nagar area of Mankhurd on Sunday night.
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One person was injured and is undergoing treatment.
The deceased were taken to the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Shatabdi Hospital in Govandi and Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar. Doctors said one woman, three girls and one boy were brought dead to Shatabdi Hospital, while a boy was brought dead to Rajawadi. The Pune-Mumbai Expressway and the old Mumbai-Pune Highway also faced landslides due to continuous rain.
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