As the first heavy showers rains battered Mumbai and suburbs on Sunday, triggering water-logging and building collapses, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray criticised Chief Minister and rival Shiv Sena faction leader Eknath Shinde over civic failures even as two persons died in an incident of building collapse in the city.
According to authorities in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the balcony of a ground floor and the first floor of a ground-plus-two floored building caved in the city’s Vile Parle area, killing two senior citizens.
In a separate incident, a portion of a ground-plus-three floor residential building collapsed in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area. Four people have been rescued while two were still trapped inside the debris, BMC authorities said, adding that the situation was under control.
