SURAT: A young salesman at the city’s
oldest shopping mall at Athwalines succumbed to
head injuries when a portion of wall collapsed inside the mall on Wednesday.
The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has ordered the mall owner to carry out structural stability report and close the mall till further orders.
The incident occurred at the city’s oldest, Dhiraj Sons mall located on Athwaline main road at about 11:15 am.
The fire and emergency department officials said that the wall was constructed a couple of months ago and it was supported with the concrete beam and the fall ceiling structure. On Wednesday morning, the wall suddenly collapsed and that one salesman was buried under the debris.
The person identified as Rupsinh Dhiya Vasava, 21, a resident of
Mahalaxmi residency in Nanpura was taken out from the pile of debris inside the mall and was shifted to the New Civil Hospital. Vasava succumbed to serious head injuries in the NCH hospital within half an hour of his admission.
Additional city engineer of municipal corporation,
AG Khatiwala said, “The internal structure of the shopping mall will have to pass from the structural
stability test. Till then, we have asked the mall owners to keep it shut for the public”
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