At least two people were killed and two-three are feared trapped after a four-storey building collapsed at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra on Friday night.
According to officials, the municipal agency hadevacuated 22 families on Friday night after cracks were seen in the illegalbuilding but some people went back inside the building to collect theirbelongings. And then the building collapsed when two people died and two-threeothers were trapped.
Officials said that the injured have been rushed tothe hospital.
Meanwhile, rescuers of the National DisasterResponse Force (NDRF) are at the site to rescue the trapped person and lookingfor survivors amid the concrete debris of the building that was built eightyears ago.
According to Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal CorporationCommissioner, Ashok Rankhamb quoted by ANI said that they had vacated theentire building but some people entered the building without permission beforeit collapsed.
The Commissioner further informed that the buildingwas an eight-year-old building and was built illegally. He said thatinvestigation will be done on the incident.
