Six labourers were killed after a pillar-less four-storey under-construction building collapsed at Ullawas village near Sector 65 in Gurugram in the wee hours of Thursday. The victim labourers were asleep when the tragedy struck them.
“Those killed were on the second and the third floor, the building’s ground and first floors were vacant,” said a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) official, involved in the rescue operation.
Three NDRF teams were deployed. The rescue operations were going on at the time of going to press. “Six bodies have been retrieved from the accident site so far. The rescue teams are on job,” an NDRF spokesperson said.
“Villagers had earlier asked the contractor to stop work as he was constructing the four-storey structure without pillars in the building. Judicial probe has been launched in the incident,” said Sanjeev Singla, Gurugram SDM.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to each family of the deceased.
The deceased have been identified as Altaf from UP’s Ambedkar Nagar, Joginder, Kuldeep, Vishal all residents of Firozabad; Ram Prakash Paswan, a resident of Samastipur in Bihar. The identity of one of the deceased is yet to be ascertained.
“The Gurugram Fire Department control room received a call at 5.15 am from a local about the building collapse in Ullawas village. The bodies of the men aged between 30 and 40 years have been recovered,” said a senior official of Gurugram Fire Department.