Building collapse in Lucknow: The death toll from the building collapse has risen to eight after rescuers recovered three more bodies from the rubble, authorities confirmed Sunday.
The collapse of the three-storey building, which housed warehouses and a motor workshop in Transport Nagar, injured 28 people on Saturday night.
State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams found the bodies of Raj Kishore (27), Rudra Yadav (24) and Jagrup Singh (35) during ongoing rescue efforts, Relief Commissioner GS Naveen said.
The rescue operation is still ongoing.
A senior district official said their current focus is to ensure that no one is trapped under the rubble.
Police said the building, which was built about four years ago, was undergoing renovation work at the time of the collapse. Most of the victims were on the ground floor when the incident occurred at around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.
The injured have been admitted to several hospitals, including Lok Bandhu Hospital.
Authorities said the building housed an automobile workshop and warehouse on the ground floor, a medical warehouse on the first floor and a cutlery warehouse on the second floor.
Akash Singh, who worked at the medical warehouse and was injured in the incident, shared that a crack had appeared in one of the pillars of the building.
“We had gone down to the ground floor because it was raining. We saw that a column had cracked. Suddenly, the whole building collapsed on us,” he said.
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