Agra: Heavy rain brings down 4-storey illegal under-construction building, two die

Following overnight heavy rain, the building caved in Monday morning trapping three labourers in the debris. They were taken out after a two-hour long operation and rushed to hospital, where two of them were declared brought dead and one was admitted to ICU, said Shukla. He said efforts were on to find out if anyone is still trapped in the debris.

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The MVDA, which is working on a plan to widen the roads, had banned all type of construction in the locality. Taking immediate action, MVDA vice-chairman C P Singh suspended JE Satish Sharma and showcaused the area’s AE for negligence.

“We had already told the owner of the house, Lakshman Prasad, not to go ahead with any construction. The JE turned a blind eye towards the construction, which caused two lives today,” C P Singh said.

The police, meanwhile, has registered a case against the building owner under IPC section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).

Meanwhile, two more deaths were reported in different cases of house collapse in Mathura and Agra districts Monday. One person, identified as Brij Mohan (55), was buried alive under debris at Sardargarh village under Raya police station in Mathura when his house collapsed while a 12-year-old boy died in a village in Agra’s Dauki area when a wall of his house collapsed.