Under-construction roof-slab of BRTS bus station in Surat city collapse, girl dead, half a dozen injured

Surat:

The underconstruction roof and the supporting slab of a BRTS bus station in Surat city today suddenly collapsed killing an around 4 year old girl on the spot and injuring half a dozen labourerers.

Police said that the incident took place in Anuvrat Dwar BRTS junction near J D Goenka school on university road in the adjoining arae of Umra and Kadodara police station.

Police said that around half a dozen people were injured in the incident and the attempts to rescue an around 2 to 3 year old girl trapped in the debris were on but she could not be saved.

Later Chief Fire officer of SMC Basant Pareek said that the rescue operation was conducted for over an hour with involvement of 50 firemen but the girl on whose head the slab had fallen was found to have died on the spot. Another man trapped in the debris was resuced safely.

Those injured were labourers working at the site and the girl was seemingly the child of one of them, he added.

DeshGujarat