Telangana Home Minister N Narsimha Reddy said different figures were being given on the number of persons trapped under the debris.
Two persons died and several are fear trapped an under-construction building collapsed in Nanakramguda area in Hyderabad on Thursday night. The rescue operations have been underway through the night and continued into early Friday morning.
ANI reports that a woman and a six- year old boy were rescued from the collapsed building and shifted to hospital. "Still 10-12 people are feared trapped," the city's Deputy Mayor Baba Fasiuddin told ANI.
About 10 families, mostly labourers, were living in the premises of the building, Mayor B Rammohan said on Thursday night. According to ANI, a total of 13 people have been identified living in the building at the time of incident.
The trapped people are said to be labourers from Chhattisgarh state and from Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana Home Minister N Narsimha Reddy and several other leaders and officials rushed to the spot after news of the collapse. Reddy said violation of rules has been noticed in the construction of the building. He also said that different figures were being given on the number of persons trapped under the debris. "Nobody is saying exactly," he said.
State Excise Minister T Padma Rao said the number of persons trapped would be known only after the debris are removed. "Unless the slabs are removed, we can not say responsibly. Six slabs have fallen on one another. Neither me nor you can say... It would be known only after the slabs are removed, how many workers are there. Some say six persons have died and some say seven died. Nobody knows how many were there and how many killed, but truth would come out only after the slabs are lifted," he said. The immediate priority right now is to remove the debris and ascertaining how many were trapped, he said. The government would act tough against those responsible for this tragedy for any violation of rules, the Excise Minister said.
Expressing anguish on the collapse of the multi-storey building, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao directed ministers from the city to take care of the rescue and relief operation.
He also directed officials to take the help of NDRF personnel.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), state police, fire services and officials from local administration have been deployed at the accident spot to carry out rescue operations.
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