Rescue operation in progress after a six-storey building collapsed on two multi-storey houses at Shakhari Bazar in Old Dhaka early Tuesday morning.
Nearly 50 residents were trapped inside three multi-storied buildings after a five-story building collapsed while being demolished at Shakhari Bazar in Old Dhaka Tuesday, police and firefighters said.
They suffered minor injuries while being evacuated, witnesses said.
The top floor of building No.14/A at Kailash Bose Lane collapsed on House No 18 and 19 when workers started demolition work there at around 8:30am, Monir Hossain, assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence Department said.
The first two floors and the top floor of the building collapsed while the middle floor tilted on the two nearby buildings keeping a number of residents confined inside the buildings for several hours, he said.
As the entrance of building No. 18 was blocked by the debris following the collapse, firefighters had to
remove those to rescue the trapped people.
“We rescued the trapped people by cutting grills of several windows of the buildings. Anyway, none received serious injury,” he added.
Owner of the collapsed building Madan Mohan Pal and demolition workers left the place immediately after the incident that created panic among the residents of the densely-populated area, he said.
Administrator of Dhaka City Corporation (South) Zillur Rahman visited the spot to oversee the rescue operation and told reporters that the workers were demolishing the infrastructure in an unplanned way.
“They (workers) were knocking down the building from ground floor that led such incident,” he said, adding that they will form a body to investigate into the matter before bringing the responsible to justice.
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