Six persons of two families were killed when the wall of a building collapsed on two adjacent huts in Moula Ali area of Hyderabad in the wee hours of Tuesday. Police said victims include two children. All the bodies were recovered from the debris. The rescue teams rescued two children.
The families of migrant labor from Mehubnagar and Ranga Reddy district were staying in the two huts for ten years, officials said.
MT Krishna Babu, the commissioner, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) said that the retaining wall collapsed due to the incessant rains in the city over the last one week. “The wall collapsed at around 2 am”, he said. As the news of the incident spread teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire department, GHMC and the police rushed to the scene with the necessary equipment to take up the search and rescue operations. Those killed include a couple and four members of another family. This is second such incident to rock Hyderabad this month.