One person was killed and several people were feared trapped after the roof of a residential high-rise in Gurgaon’s Sector 109 collapsed on Thursday night. The living room in an apartment of the 18-floor Chintels Paradiso housing complex first came down, triggering the collapse of roofs and floors directly under it, news agency reported .
A couple- Mr and Mrs Srivastava- is still stuck in the rubble, Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner Nishant Yadav said adding that only Mr Srivastava’s leg is still stuck. He is being treated for injuries as his leg is being pulled out and is expected to make a recovery, Mr Yadav apprised.
Mrs Srivastava has still not been found and it is feared that she may be dead, he further said.
A team of the National Disaster Response Force, or NDRF, is working to rescue the trapped people. Visuals show rescuers in bright orange jackets installing a ladder to reach the upper floors of the building.
“A drawing room on the sixth collapsed till the first floor,” Kaushal Kumar, a resident of the building, told ANI, adding the incident happened in “Tower D” of the high-rise.
As per initial inputs, 6 floors of a 17 floor building have collapsed. Some of the families residing in the building are also feared trapped. Multiple teams of National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force team are carrying out the rescue operations. Four families are said to be trapped in the debris.
