GURGAON: Six labourers were killed after an under-construction, four-storey building collapsed in a village here on Thursday morning, officials said. Some more persons are feared trapped in the rubble of the building in Ullawas village near sector 65 of Gurgaon, officials said.
The state government has announced a compensation relief of Rs 3 lakh each to the family members of the deceased. “Six bodies have been retrieved from the accident site so far. The rescue teams are still on the job,” a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) spokesperson said.
According to an official, the newly-laid ceiling on the top floor of the building had crashed, triggering the collapse of the entire structure. “Those killed were on the second and the third floor, the building’s ground and first floor were vacant,” the NDRF official, involved in the rescue operation, told PTI.
Three of the deceased, identified as Kuldeep (32), Vishal (17), Altaf (24), were residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, while one Anand is a native of Bihar’s Samastipur, said Gurgaon Police spokesperson Subhash Bokan. “The identity of the other two deceased was yet to be established,” he said. All the victims were asleep when the building collapsed, Bokan said, adding that a magistrate-level enquiry has been initiated into the incident.
