1 dead in Ghaziabad building collapse

Ghaziabad (UP), July 22

A five-storey under-construction building collapsed here on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, officials said. The building was located in the Akash Nagar area of the Masuri police station limits.

The NDRF personnel were pressed into service soon after the incident and rescue and search operations were under way, the police said. “So far, we have pulled out one body and rescued one person trapped in the debris,” an NDRF official said. The incident comes a week after a six-storey under-construction building collapsed on another five-storey building in Greater Noida, killing nine persons, including a toddler and two women. — PTI

Another in Chennai

Chennai: A migrant labourer was killed and 32 injured when an overloaded scaffolding of an under-construction building collapsed here, police said on Sunday. PTI