Madhya Pradesh: Ten killed as car rams into hotel building in Indore, brings it down
The chief minister has announced compensation for the victims. Rescue operations are still under way.
Ten people were killed and several feared trapped after a three-storey hotel building collapsed in Indore on Saturday night. The building collapsed after a car rammed into it at 9.20 pm, Deputy Inspector General of Police Harinarayan Mishra told ANI.
The building, located near a bus stand in the crowded Sarwate locality of the city, is said to have been very old. The car had crashed into a weight-bearing pillar of the structure, according to Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Dubey.
Rescue operations are still under way. The district collector ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident.
Heavy machinery had to be deployed to find victims under the debris, The Times of India reported.
Madhya Pradesh: A building has collapsed near Sarvate bus stand in Indore. People feared trapped, rescue operations underway pic.twitter.com/Y5tXivO0cs
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2018
#UPDATE Indore building collapse: Death toll rises to ten. Rescue operations continue. #MadhyaPradesh pic.twitter.com/mg19KodZEA
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2018
#Indore building collapse: Collector orders magisterial inquiry into the incident that claimed 10 lives. #MadhyaPradesh
— ANI (@ANI) April 1, 2018
Calling the incident “painful”, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Twitter that the government was monitoring the rescue operations. He announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the families of those who died, and Rs 50,000 for the injured, ANI reported.
#Indore building collapse: #MadhyaPradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan announces compensation of Rs. 2 lakh each, to the families of those who died, Rs 50,000 each, for those inured. The incident claimed 10 lives.
— ANI (@ANI) April 1, 2018
इंदौर के सरवटे बस स्टैंड के पास हुआ हादसा अत्यंत दुखद है। बचाव कार्य सहित पूरी स्थिति पर हमारी नजर है। ईश्वर से प्रार्थना है कि सभी सकुशल हों और घायल शीघ्र स्वस्थ हों।
— ShivrajSingh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) March 31, 2018