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Building collapse in Mumbai kills 17
Relatives mourn the death of victims after a building collapse in Mumbai on 25 July 2017. Ragul Krishnan/Mumbai Weekly Workers clean up debris of a collapsed building in suburban Mumbai on 25 July 2017. Seventeen people were killed while 28 people were rescued in a 15 hour operation. Chitral Khambhati/Mumbai Weekly
Fifty three-year-old, Rajesh Doshi, gestures as he gets rescued by the fire brigade team in Mumbai on 25 July 2017. Supreet Sapkal/Mumbai Weekly
A four-storey residential building collapsed in suburban Ghatkopar, part of Mumbai on Tuesday morning, killing seventeen people and injuring eleven other individuals. The deceased included a three-month -old girl, a thirteenmonth-old boy and a 14-year-old girl. Two firemen involved in rescue operations were also injured. Residents of the building claimed that the building collapsed due to illegal alterations
carried out on the ground floor of the building by a Shiv Sena worker Sunil Shitap, to convert a maternity home run by him for around six years into a commercial lodging. I n the minutes before the building collapsed, residents sensed strong vibrations. They ran frantically out of the building. However, most of them could not make it out of the building in time. Some residents alleged that labourers
alleged that labourers working on the ground floor escaped when the building started shaking, without bothering to alert others. At least 30 to 35 people got trapped under the debris when the building collapsed. A total of 12 fire engines, two rescue vans, four JCBs and 300 firemen were rushed to the spot. In addition, 50 officers and volunteers from the NDRF were also rushed for rescue operations. Nine ambulances were also pushed into service at the spot.
Rescue operations by teams of the National Disaster Response Force, the Mumbai Fire Brigade and local volunteers were on till late at night, as some occupants of the building were feared to be trapped under the rubble. Rajesh Doshi, who was stuck in the debris, was being provided with medical assistance, with doctors and nurses at the spot providing him with glucose to ensure he survives. Rescue operations went on till midnight.
Two children drown in a pipeline burst Two children, aged nine years and six months, drowned on 7 July 2017 after a 72-inch water pipeline close to their shanty in the Behrampada slums burst, causing a flood. Police said both children were sleeping when the pipeline burst, and are believed to have died in their sleep. According to civic officials, the part of the Tansa Main pipeline that runs through Behrampada in Bandra (East) burst
around 10.30 a.m. and water spurted as high as ten feet, flooding 50 to 60 shanties. Pr i yan ka, 9, and six-month-old Swapnil, were sleeping inside when the pipeline burst. T h e bodies were seen floating in the water. Before admitting to the hospital the children were declared dead. . . Water supply was be affected in Bandra, Khar and Santacruz due to the incident, officials said.
A woman sits amidst a water logged road due to a pipeline burst in Mumbai on 7 July 2017. Ramees M.A./Mumbai Weekly
Poonam, mother of the deceased children mourns along with her son, Vighnesh, in Mumbai on 7 July 2017. A six-feet water pipeline close to the Behrampada slums burst, causing the death of two children. Ramees M.A./Mumbai Weekly
Monsoon hits Mumbai This monsoon, be careful when you walk under a tree on the street, or even if you have parked your car under the overhanging branches of the tree. . For, the new danger is not from heavy rain, but how it's causing trees to break and fall on people and vehicles! In a few disturbing incidents last
week, two people were killed due to this. On 22 July 2017, TV anchor Kanchan Nath went through injures when a coconut tree came crashing down on her in Chembur. On the same day, advocat e Kishore Pawar who riding a two-wheeler, was killed in Thane, after a tree fell on him. That's
not all, On July 23, two people were badly injured in Parel, when a tree fell on the taxi in which they were travelling. In another incident people narrowly escaped being hurt after a huge tree fell on parked vehicles near Churchgate Station. A tree fell on Audi car at Turner Road in Bandra
west. According the Fire Brigade, the big tree came down on the car parked below it. No one was injured in the incident. An official from fire brigade said, "Due to tree fall, traffic on that road was affected." There were over a thousand complaints of
tree fall-related cases registered with civic body's disaster management cell in the last two months. Over 400-odd trees have been uprooted in the last one month in Mumbai city. These are grown- up trees we are cutting in the name of development and this can weaken the soil.
A damaged car is seen after a tree fell in southern Mumbai on 16 July 2017. Hemanshi Kamani/Mumbai Weekly