Lucknow: The death toll in a building collapse here has risen to eight after rescue workers pulled out three more bodies from the debris, officials said on Sunday.
28 people were injured when a three-storey building containing a warehouse and a motor workshop collapsed in Transport Nagar area here on Saturday evening.
Relief Commissioner GS Naveen said the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) recovered bodies of three people, identified as Raj Kishore (27), Rudra Yadav (24) and Jagroop Singh (35) during the rescue operation. .
The operation is still going on.
A senior district administration official said they are now focusing on ensuring that no one else is trapped under the debris.
Police said the building was constructed about four years ago and some construction work was going on at the time of the incident. Most of the victims were working on the ground floor when the incident occurred at 4:45 pm on Saturday evening.
The injured have been admitted to various hospitals including Lok Bandhu Hospital in the district.
According to officials, the building had a motor workshop and warehouse on the ground floor, a medical warehouse on the first floor and a cutlery warehouse on the second floor.
Akash Singh, who works in the medical warehouse and is among the injured, said that a pillar of the building has cracked.
He said, "Because of the rain, we came to the ground floor. We saw that there was a crack in one of the pillars of the building. Suddenly the entire building collapsed on us."
28 people were injured when a three-storey building containing a warehouse and a motor workshop collapsed in Transport Nagar area here on Saturday evening.
Relief Commissioner GS Naveen said the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) recovered bodies of three people, identified as Raj Kishore (27), Rudra Yadav (24) and Jagroop Singh (35) during the rescue operation. .
The operation is still going on.
A senior district administration official said they are now focusing on ensuring that no one else is trapped under the debris.
Police said the building was constructed about four years ago and some construction work was going on at the time of the incident. Most of the victims were working on the ground floor when the incident occurred at 4:45 pm on Saturday evening.
The injured have been admitted to various hospitals including Lok Bandhu Hospital in the district.
According to officials, the building had a motor workshop and warehouse on the ground floor, a medical warehouse on the first floor and a cutlery warehouse on the second floor.
Akash Singh, who works in the medical warehouse and is among the injured, said that a pillar of the building has cracked.
He said, "Because of the rain, we came to the ground floor. We saw that there was a crack in one of the pillars of the building. Suddenly the entire building collapsed on us."
