A three-year-old child lost his life while his 60-year-old grandmother was injured after a portion of the ceiling of their flat collapsed on them on Sunday.
The police said the incident, which occurred on the fifth floor of the five-storey Ambika Sagar building near Powai Naka in Ulhasnagar, was reported at 6.30 a.m. “The ceiling of two rooms of a 2-BHK flat came off in the 25-year-old private residential building. Niraj Satpute lost his life, while his grandmother has been admitted to Central Hospital in Ulhasnagar,” senior inspector S.C. Suradkar of Central police station said.
Collapse at hotel
A portion of the building collapsed at Sandhurst road in Mumbai.
In a separate incident, a portion of the ceiling of Nilgiri Hotel near Sandhurst Road collapsed around 4 a.m. on Sunday. “Fire control got the information around 5 a.m. and reached the spot immediately. Noor Mohammad Aliksar (17) was injured in the incident. He was one of the labourers involved in the demolition work of the building,” officials said.
Mr. Aliksar has been admitted to the State-run JJ Hospital, where his condition is said to stable.
Officials from the disaster control room of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said the hotel had recently been evacuated since the building was in a dilapidated condition.
Staff members of the hotel said the four-storey private building, located on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road, had been evacuated following the building collapse in Dongri on July 16.
The unauthorised building in the congested Dongri had collapsed taking down several families along with it. Thirteen people died in the tragedy, while rescue workers managed to pull out around 40 people trapped under the rubble.
