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Haryana CM announces compensation in Gurugram building collapse incident

PNS

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh each to the kin of those who lost their lives after a building collapsed in Gurugram district’s Khawaspur village on Sunday.

The Chief Minister also announced a relief of  Rs one lakh each to the seriously injured.

Three people had died and one person was injured in the incident.The building was located on the Pataudi road in Farrukhnagar in Gurugram.

A warehouse company had built the building to house labourers, police had earlier said.

Two of the deceased were from Bhiwani in Haryana and one was from Uttar Pradesh.The injured person was also from Uttar Pradesh.

After an almost 19-hour long rescue operation which got over on Monday afternoon, the rescue teams, including the police, the Fire department, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), the Health department and the Civil Defence personnel, had pulled out a man alive and three bodies.

An FIR was filed against the building owner and the manager of the company where the victims used to work, under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Farrukhnagar police station on Monday.