Deadly mishap: Roof fall leaves dual labourers dead
On Aug 21, 5 people were killed and several others harmed circuitously Masjid Wazir Khan when a roof of a residence caved in during a marriage ceremony. PHOTO: SYED MUSHARAF SHAH/EXPRESS
LAHORE: The roof of a three-storey, under-construction residence collapsed, murdering dual labourers while injuring 4 some-more people in Madina Colony on Friday.
A rescue central conspicuous dual floors of a residence had been already assembled and work on a third building was underneath way. Construction workers were fixation lenter of a third level when a surrounding walls collapsed underneath a weight of a concrete.
The waste fell on a roof of a second building that also caved in. Two labourers were buried underneath a rubble while 4 others perceived injuries.
Imtiaz Ahmad, who lives nearby, conspicuous he had returned after charity prayers when he listened a shrill rumbling noise. He came out of his residence and rushed towards a site, where he listened people screaming. Other neighbours also collected during a place and started rescue efforts.
Police and rescue teams were also called in and shifted a victims to a circuitously hospital, where doctors conspicuous dual of them passed on arrival. The defunct were identified as Danish and Ramzan. They were associated to any other and lived nearby.
Another rescue central conspicuous a occurrence took place since of a bad customary of construction. There were no pillars in a three-storey residence and four-inch-wide bricks were used for a walls that could not support a weight of a building.
This is not a initial box of roof fall in Lahore. On Sep 17, 3 labourers had died when a roof of a bakery in Chohang collapsed after a cylinder blast. On Sep 3, dual women were killed in another roof fall in a Youhanabad area of Nishtar Colony.
On Aug 21, 5 people were killed and several others harmed circuitously Masjid Wazir Khan when a roof of a residence caved in during a marriage ceremony.
In Sep 2014, 8 people had died while 8 some-more were harmed when roofs of several houses collapsed due to complicated rains circuitously LDA Plaza.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 8th, 2016.
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