Tag: Wall Collapse

Cuttack: Two persons were dead and one was injured at Darda Haripur village under Salepur block of Cuttack district today after a wall collapsed during roof thatching work of a house. The deceased were identified as owner of the house Narahari Swain and a villager Khirod Chandra Das. While Narahari had died on the spot, […]

G.Udayagiri: In a tragic incident, a woman and her daughter were killed due to collapse of a wall of a water tank in the wee hours today at Telimunda Sahi of Tumudibandha village. The deceased identified as Bharati Dalapati and Jangyaseni were washing dishes near the water tank which was when the wall collapsed leading […]

Puri: In a tragic incident, a girl student of Basukera Saraswati Sisu Bidya Mandir was killed and 24 students sustained critical injuries after a wall adjacent to the school premises collapsed on Thursday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Minakshi Satpathy, a class VIII student of the school. According to sources, the incident took […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of those killed in a wall collapse in a marriage hall in Bharatpur in Rajasthan. Expressing his condolences, Modi said: “I am pained beyond words… My thoughts are with the families of the deceased. I […]

Cuttack: Three persons of a family were critically injured after a portion of a hill collapsed on their house at Bishnupur village under Tigiria police limits in the district late Thursday night. The injured have been identified as Kuna Swain, his wife and their son. The mishap occurred when the three were sleeping inside the […]

Keonjhar: Two minor siblings were killed and two others sustained critical injuries after the wall of their house at Manoharpur village under Ghatagaon police limits in the district collapsed on them late on Sunday night. While the deceased were identified as Shriram Munda (3) and Geeta (5), their mother Rukmini and sister Hemlata (5) were […]

Rourkela: A man was killed after wall of a house collapsed on him at Chhend Colony in Rourkela today. According to reports, the deceased identified as Arabinda Gauda, was passing by a dilapidated house in the colony when suddenly one of its wall came crashing down on him. Gauda who got trapped inside the debris, […]

Bhubaneswar: A man died and his wife sustained critical injuries after the wall of their house at Bedasahi village in Panchupali panchayat under Ghasipur block in Keonjhar district collapsed following incessant rains. The deceased identified as Bhaskar Dehuri died on spot while his wife, Tilottama Dehuri was rushed to Anandapur hospital where she is undergoing […]

Pune: At least 15 people, including four children, were killed when a portion of the compound wall of a housing society collapsed on shanties adjacent to it in Kondhwa here in the early hours of Saturday. The shanties were set up for labourers working in a nearby construction site. A fire brigade official said incessant […]

Mumbai: At least 13 persons were killed in a wall crash in Malad, north-west Mumbai and another seven perished in a wall collapse in Pune, early on Tuesday as rains continued to wreak havoc in large parts of Maharashtra. In the wake of the incessant rainfall, the state government has declared July 2 as a […]

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up a team of experts to investigate the incident of wall collapse at Pimpripada in Malad, in which 26 people were killed. The team, which comprises experts from the IIT Bombay and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), has been asked to submit a report within 15 days, […]

Bhubaneswar: The regional Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in nine districts of the state in the next 24 hours. Koraput, Malkangiri, Bargarh, Nuapada, Nabarangpur, Sambalpur, Sundergarh, Jharsuguda and Deogarh districts will witness heavy to very heavy rainfall today under the impact of the monsoon trough line, informed Charan Behera, duty officer of Bhubaneswar […]

Bhubaneswar: Four persons including a woman were killed while four others sustained injuries in separate wall collapse incidents due to incessant rainfall in Kendrapara, Balasore, Puri and Mayurbhanj districts on Friday. According to reports, an octogenarian identified as Kailash Samal of Nuasahi in Ganeshpur area was killed while his wife sustained injuries after wall of […]

Chennai: Fifteen people were killed on Monday when a wall collapsed on their houses near Coimbatore as torrential rains lashed Tamil Nadu, said police. According to the police, at around 5.30 a.m., the 20-foot wall fell on four houses, resulting in their collapse and killing the victims while they were asleep. Police and fire service […]

Bhubaneswar/Bolangir: Two members of a family were killed while two others were left critically injured after their house wall collapsed on them following heavy rainfall in Patnagarh area of Bolangir, Odisha Special Relief Commissioner Pradeep Jena informed on Sunday. The accident occurred while four of the family had gone to watch ‘Shani Mela’ to a […]