Ahmedabad: 10 feared trapped as four-storeyed building collapses in Odhav area

Four fire tenders are currently present at the spot. (Express photo/Javed Raja)

Ahmedabad Collector Vikrant Pandey said, “Six persons have sustained serious injuries in the collapse and they have been shifted to hospital. We are still ascertaining if how many people could be trapped inside the debris. As a precaution, we have got surrounding apartments also evacuated.”

“It is a residential apartment and its two blocks have collapsed. There were total 32 residential units in it… The NDRF team has been dispatched from Gandhinagar and could be reaching any moment,” he said.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani instructed Ahmedabad Collector to get a team of NDRF for help. (Express photo/Javed Raja)

Chief Fire Officer M F Dastoor said: “One of the two rescued persons told us that there are more people under the rubble. The search operation may continue till early Monday morning.”

Meanwhile, sources said that the authorities had recently got the apartment evacuated, but some residents had returned to live in the building. The apartments were built by Gujarat Housing Board in 1999.