Mumbai: One dead, another critical after slum structure collapses

MUMBAI: One person died and five were injured after a ground-plus-one structure collapsed during a repair work at Kurla Thakkar Bappa Colony slum on Thursday. One of the injured is critical.
It is stated that the house owner Chandrabhaga Kshirsagar hired a contractor for major repair of her slum house when the incident took place.
During the work, the upper floor of the structure collapsed in which Kshirsagar’s 60-year-old relative, Prabhu Khandare, sustained serious injuries.
The contractor Ayub Shaikh was on the upper floor of the structure along with his three workers and all of them have sustained serious injuries in the incident. It was raining when the incident took place.
The neighbours rushed the injured to hospital where Khandare died during the treatment and Shaikh’s condition is critical. Kshirsagar’s 12-year-old relative also sustained minor injuries in the incident and was discharged from the hospital after the treatment. The Nehru Nagar police have inquired into the incident.