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Business tycoon Anand Mahindra, actors Vijay Varma and Soni Razdan, and several others reacted to the Mumbai hoarding collapse tragedy that killed as many as 14 people and left 74 injured.
Tagging Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in his post on X, Anand Mahindra wrote, “14 dead. Om Shanti. 60 injured. From a billboard collapse. Unacceptable. And we’re a city trying to transform itself into a modern metropolis. CM @mieknathshinde has ordered a probe into all hoardings. Stringent rules must follow.”
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Resharing the video on his Instagram story, Vijay Varma wrote, “Oh no.”
Actor Mini Mathur, in her Instagram story, wrote, “Life in our country has ZERO VALUE. Whose hoarding is it? Who allowed it to stand there for years? The blame game this week will lead to no answers and the corrupt nexus that allowed the open flouting of rules will never be taken apart. Disgusting.”
“The case of the invisible hoarding (until of course it fell on people and killed them),” Soni Razdan wrote on her Instagram story.
Fourteen people were killed and 74 injured after a giant hoarding collapsed in Ghatkopar’s Pant Nagar locality as wind gusts and rain hit the city. The hoarding measured 120 x 120 feet as against the permitted size of 40 x 40 feet.
The viral CCTV footage shows the giant hoarding tearing down the roofs of multiple cars before touching the ground. According to reports, the hoarding was erected by Ego Media on a plot that has been leased to the Police Welfare Corporation by the Maharashtra government’s Police Housing Division.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde visited the site and announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 5 lakh for the kin of the deceased. The National Disaster Response Force is conducting rescue operations at the collapse site.
