One person was killed and five others were injured when the balcony of a dilapidated house collapsed on the route of Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra in Dariapur area of ​​Ahmedabad on Tuesday afternoon.

People were standing on the balcony watching the Rath Yatra, then the accident happened

Dariapur Station Inspector JS Chowdhary told that some of the injured were standing on the balcony of the second floor watching the Rath Yatra, while some were standing below. He told that the injured were taken to the Civil Hospital, where during treatment Mehul Panchal (20 died, while the condition of the other five is said to be stable.

Children and women were standing in the balcony

It is being told that at the time when the accident It happened, at that time children and women were also standing in the balcony. In the sudden accident, the people present in the balcony did not get any chance to recover and all fell down along with the balcony. It is being told that debris fell on the people standing below the building, due to which many people got serious injuries. , The video of the incident went viral

It is shown in the video of the incident that when the annual Lord Jagannath When the Rath Yatra was passing, three people were standing in the balcony. The two-storey building is said to be old and dilapidated. Officials said that the administration had taken special precautions to ensure that no such incident takes place during the Rath Yatra. The yatra continued with policemen arriving to help those injured in the accident.

AhmedabadPublished Date

Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 9: 34 PM IST