16 die,34 rescued and others injured, some of them severely after a 100 feet hoarding came down crushing, weighing 250 tonnes at Ghatkopar, Mumbai

The powerful thunderstorm/ dust storm on Monday has created havoc in Mumbai with a hoarding measuring more than a hundred feet felling down on a petrol pump at East Mumbai, Ghatkopar weighing 250 tonnes killing 16 people and injuring several others some, grievously admitted in various hospitals.

According to the latest news, among those killed were two fateful couple, a retired Air traffic control officer and his wife Manoj Chansoria and Anita who had gone to get petrol pump to get their car’s tank filled as they were leaving for Jabalpur where they had planned to live after retirement. They were in Mumbai with some VISA related work.

The most unfortunate couple didn’t knew that going to petrol pump would be an evil day for them.

Over hundred people had been trapped under the debris of the falling 250 ton hoarding that was over 100 feet in measurement.

The unfortunate tragic death of the couple was revealed after the son of the couple living abroad in US contacted the parents with their mobile phones going unanswered.

The worried son contacted his friend in Mumbai and requested him to find out the well being about his parents as their mobile phones are going unattended.

The friend lodged a complaint with the police station and the police traced their position tracking their location. Out of those rescued from the tragedy at Ghatkopar Petrol Pump crash of a hoarding about thirty four persons have rescued alive while 16 met their tragic end and others admitted at various hospitals for immediate treatment.

Rge police has registered an FIR against Bhavesh Bhinde the advertising owner of the hoarding for culpable homicide against who there are already twenty cases registered. This hoarding was totally illegal as not more than hoardings measuring 40 X 40 are allowed to be displayed and this hoarding that crashed leading to 16 human kills was 120×120 for which he was paying Rs 25 lakhs to Mumbai Municipal Co-operation .The chief minister Eknath Shinde while extending his deepest condolences on this huge tragedy sanction Rs 5 lakhs as monetary compensation to the bereaved families of the deceased each and assured to bear the expenditure incurred in the treatment of those injured in this tragic accident.