Three persons were killed and two others injured, when a four-storey building collapsed at Belapur in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday.
As many as 52 residents had a narrow escape as the ground-plus- three storied building “Indira Nivas” at Shahbazgaon village located near Belapur town in Navi Mumbai caved in like a proverbial pack of cards at around 4.30 am.
The residents in the 10-year-old building, which housed 13 flats and three commercial shops, collapsed all of a sudden, when the residents were sleeping at their homes.
All three persons killed in the mishap were migrants from Uttar Pradesh. They were identified as Mohammed Meraj Altaf Hussain (30), who hailed from Karanpur in Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Shafiq Ansari (29) and Miraj Saif Ansari, (24), both of whom belonged to Lohinda village in Jaunpur district.Two persons were injured in the mishap, while other residents managed to run out of the building as it crashed.