Two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and five others injured in two separate incidents of house collapse on Saturday, even as heavy rains battered the metropolis for most part of the day.
In the first incident that took place at Colaba’s Ganeshmurti Nagar in south Mumbai at 10.45 am, an 18-year-old boy, identified as one Masruf Shaikh, was killed, while five others sustained severe wounds when an under-construction portion of a building collapsed. The injured were rushed to St Geroge Hospital, where their condition was described ‘stable’.
In the second incident, one Sujit Pawar (12) was killed when a protection wall of a temple came crushing on him in Triveni Nagar locality of Malad suburb in north Mumbai, at 4 pm. Earlier on Friday night, two pavement dwellers had been killed and another injured when a portion of a building crashed on them.