As many as 12 labourers were injured, six seriously as the roof of the third floor of an under construction building for a commercial complex collapsed on Sunday at Agrasen Chowk locality here. The injured have been rushed to District Hospital in the city.
The building was being constructed by a local builder and the roof of the structure for the third flood was laid on Saturday, police said.
The roof on the third floor suddenly caved in and fell on the labourers working on the second floor of the building this afternoon. The work of removing the debris had already commenced with the search underway for labourers who might be still trapped inside the debris.
The reason for the collapse of the roof was not immediately known. All senior district and police officials immediately reached the spot to take stock of the situation.