Man killed, another injured as car parking lift collapses at Mumbai residential tower
A man died and another suffered injuries after a car parking lift collapsed at a 21-storey residential building in Mumbai's Borivali West area on Saturday, civic officials said.
The accident took place around 11 am at Prathamesh Building, located on Link Road, said the
Mumbai Fire Brigade
.
The car lift plunged into a 7-metre-deep pit, trapping two persons, said an official from the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
(BMC).
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The victims, Shubham Madamlal Dhuri (30) and Sunjeet Yadav (45), were rescued by firefighters and rushed to the nearby BMC-run Shatabdi Hospital, a civic official said.
"As per the information received from the hospital's attending medical officer, Dhuri was declared 'brought dead'. Yadav, who sustained a head injury, is in a stable condition," he said.
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Further investigation into the incident is underway, the official added.
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