Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl and a resident of Durga Charan Street in north Kolkata died after a balcony of the top floor of a G+3 residential building collapsed on Friday night. The deceased, who was standing on the balcony, sustained severe injuries. She was declared dead when taken to R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.
According to a KMC buildings department official, they gave an "insecure" tag to the building long ago, asking residents to either conduct urgent repairs or vacate it. "After conducting a structural stability study, we found the building to be vulnerable and declared it extremely dilapidated. If the residents paid heed to our warning and conducted urgent repairs, the life of this young girl could have been saved," said an official.
The KMC officials went to the spot on Friday night and decided to demolish the insecure parts of the building that might collapse. "I helped the KMC buildings department raze the most vulnerable parts of the building to prevent such freak accidents in future. The engineers now should reassess the structural stability of the building and come up with a solution," said Sunanda Sarkar, the local Trinamool Congress councillor.
According to Sarkar, there are over 56 tenants who occupy the G+3 dilapidated building.
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl and a resident of Durga Charan Street in north Kolkata died after a balcony of the top floor of a G+3 residential building collapsed on Friday night. The deceased, who was standing on the balcony, sustained severe injuries. She was declared dead when taken to R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.
According to a KMC buildings department official, they gave an "insecure" tag to the building long ago, asking residents to either conduct urgent repairs or vacate it. "After conducting a structural stability study, we found the building to be vulnerable and declared it extremely dilapidated. If the residents paid heed to our warning and conducted urgent repairs, the life of this young girl could have been saved," said an official.
The KMC officials went to the spot on Friday night and decided to demolish the insecure parts of the building that might collapse. "I helped the KMC buildings department raze the most vulnerable parts of the building to prevent such freak accidents in future. The engineers now should reassess the structural stability of the building and come up with a solution," said Sunanda Sarkar, the local Trinamool Congress councillor.
According to Sarkar, there are over 56 tenants who occupy the G+3 dilapidated building.