On Friday evening, another incident of building collapse came up, a five storey under-construction building collapsed in Khoda’s Lokpriya Vihar locality. This is 5th such incident in Noida and Ghaziabad over a span of 10days.
The Ghaziabad district administration officials said as per the initial assessment, no one feared trapped or killed in the latest building collapse.
The building was a commercial site was damaged a week ago when a crane slided off the highway and crashed into the ground floor of the building. Due to heavy rains over next few days further damaged the property .
“As a result of impact the building developed a few cracks and was evacuated. In past few days the cracks widened and the area was cordoned off as a precautionary measure. The teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) along with administration officials and police force has been roped in,” Ritu Maheshwari, Ghaziabad district magistrate said.
“The was no one inside the building at the time of collapse. But we are still ensuring that no one is hurt. A search is still on,” an NDRF officer said.
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