Part of terrace collapses in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: A part of terrace slab of a dilapidated apartment in Naranpura area of the city collapsed on Monday. However, no one suffered any injuries in the incident. But a Covid-19 positive patient had to shift to his brother’s house as the block was vacated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) after the incident.
According to local residents, no one was living in that flat on the third floor of the Asopalav Flats in Naranpura for around 20 years. However, as one Covid-19 patient, 31, was living on the second floor of the building, he along with nearly 30 others had to move out of the flats.
The patient had to move to his brother’s place till he was given further accommodation.
His brother told TOI, “We had bought two flats in October last year but the issue of dilapidated condition of the flats was always there.”
Officers of Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Service (AFES) informed the deputy estate officer of west zone, Chintan Shah, to remove risky part of the building so that it would not cause any loss of lives or properties in near future, said an AFES officer.