Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh): A woman and her four children were killed in a wall collapse in Wajid Khel locality here on Friday, a senior official said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the incident and announced financial assistance of Rs. 4 lakh to the bereaved family, an official spokesman said in Lucknow.
District Magistrate, Shahjahanpur, Indra Vikram Singh, said Shabnam (42) was sleeping with her children Ruby (20) Shahbaz (5), Chandini (3) and Sahib (8) when the incident took place.
Another son Sahil (15) also received serious injuries and has been hospitalised, the DM said. The bodies have been sent for postmortem.
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In a similar incident, 80-year-old six-storey building in south Mumbai collapsed on Thursday night leaving six dead and several others injured.
The rescue operations continued as 2-3 other persons were feared trapped in the rubble even as bouts of heavy rains continued to lash the city.
The first two major house-crashes of Mumbai in the current monsoon includes the five-storied Bhanushali Building in Fort, near the GPO and a three-storied tenement in Plot No. 8B of Collector Compound in Malvani, Malad west which collapsed on an adjoining two-storied tenement.
With inputs from agencies
