The incident is an eerie replay of the Kondhwa wall collapse that had claimed the lives of 15 labourers and their kin, including four children and two women, early on Saturday last week. A number of trees were clumped around the section of the compound wall of the institute, estimated at a height of 8-9 ft. The force of the downpour caused the trees and the part of the wall to crash on the labourers’ tin sheds. Speaking to The Hindu, he said that around 30 labourers were living in makeshift tin sheds and were working on a residential block being developed by a city-based builder. “Immediately after the Kondhwa incident, Pune civic officials had completed a survey of 297 construction sites and had marked out at least six labourer camps as potentially dangerous areas prone to rain-triggered accidents.

Source: The Hindu July 02, 2019 02:56 UTC