Mumbai: The second floor slab of a 20-year-old building in Nalasopara East crashed, injuring a couple on Friday night around 11pm. The couple was immediately rushed to the nearby corporation hospital but later moved to Nair Hospital for further treatment. Their condition is said to be stable.
Sources said the slab crashed on to the first floor, but since the floor was vacant, the casualty was less.
The Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) had already pasted a notice on this building declaring it dilapidated and dangerous.
Sandip Shinde (53) and wife Anita (46), were in the hall of their flat in Smriti Apartment when the slab collapsed. While Sandip injured his legs and sustained injury to his stomach, an iron rod pierced through the thigh of Anita. “My friend staying in this building called me around 11pm saying that a slab had crashed on the first floor. We immediately rushed to the spot to offer help,” said Mahendra Kadam, a social worker, adding that they first went to corporation hospital, but later called former Nalasopara MLA Kshitij Thakur, who arranged for an ambulance to take the victims to Nair Hospital.
Kadam said he had been regularly following up with the VVCMC employee Ramesh Gharat over action taken after noice on the dilapidated building, but in vain. Even after the collapse, no one from the VVCMC visited the spot till late afternoon.
There are many illegal buildings in Nalasopara East, many of which have been constructed very close to each other. Earlier this month, a portion of a four-storey building, Noor Villa, in Dongri, which had many cracks, collapsed. In July, three persons were killed and two injured after a ground-plus four-storey structure in Shahbaz village in CBD-Belapur crashed.
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