PTI, NOIDA: Four labourers were killed and five more severely injured when temporary iron fixtures around an under-construction multi-storey private building on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway collapsed Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred at private real estate firm BPTP’s 18-storey ‘Capital City’ in Sector 94 when the shuttering (temporary fixtures built of iron) came crashing down in the morning, the police said.
A police official said prima facie, it appears that the shuttering was hit by a tractor-trolley carrying construction material, which led to the incident but the cause is yet to be ascertained.
“Nine people were injured when the shuttering of the building collapsed. Four of them have died, while five others have been hospitalised,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ajay Pal Sharma said.
An FIR has been registered at the Sector 39 police station, under whose jurisdiction the building is located, police said.
The deceased have been identified as tractor-troller driver Naushad and workers Karan, Vijaypal and Ramvijay, they said.
The injured, Ajay, Shadaab, Mahesh, Nisaarul and Ashok, are undergoing treatment at local hospitals, they added.
The city administration has assured compensation to the families of the victims, pending probe into the matter, even as a police official told PTI that workers, who were fixing windows and tiles on the building on Sunday morning using the shuttering, allegedly did not have safety harness.
City Magistrate Shalender Mishra said it has been reported that a connecting pin on the shuttering was loose which caused the structure to collapse when the tractor hit it but exact details would be known after the probe.
“Police are probing the matter and after that, due compensation will be given to the families of the victims as per the Wages Act,” he said.
