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2 labourers killed after 3-storey building collapses amid demolition in Gurugram

Two other labourers rescued alive

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Tribune News Service

Gurugram, October 3

Two labourers were killed while two rescued alive after a three-storey building collapsed amid demolition here on Monday.

The incident occurred in Udyog Vihar Phase-I at around 8 am in plot 257.

3-storey building collapses amid demolition in Gurugram. Tribune photo: S Chandan

Around a dozen labourers were working at the demolition site when first the roof and later, the entire building caved in.

Deepak Saharan, DCP West, said it was an old building that was being demolished since September 26. Two floors of the three-storey building had earlier been demolished and the remaining roof of the last floor collapsed, trapping the four labourers under it.

After getting information, the police team along with the civil defence and fire brigade team had reached the spot and started the rescue operation.

Police along with the civil defence and fire brigade team at the building collapse site in Gurugram. Tribune photo: S Chandan

The administration has marked an inquiry to be headed by the SDM.

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