Eyewitness of Lucknow accident: I was in the bathroom… felt an earthquake and the apartment turned into rubble with an explosion A to Z Counsel

Lucknow Building Collapse
– Photo: Amar Ujala

In a horrifying accident on Tuesday evening in the capital Lucknow, a five-storey apartment building on Wazir Hasan Road collapsed like a house of cards. There were about 16 flats in the five-storey building. Families were living in all of them. More than 50 people were buried in the accident that took place at around 6:15 pm. The rescue operation was started here by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) along with the police and fire department at around eight o’clock. Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak himself, Urban Development Minister AK Sharma along with senior officials of the government, administration, police reached for the rescue work. Eyewitnesses say that digging work was going on in the parking lot on the ground floor. In this, drilling was being done by the builder. When the accident happened Even at that time people heard the sounds of drilling.