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Mahim building collapse: Day after, glimpses of life and death from Mahim

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Miracles do happen. And the three employees of a franchise owned Maruti showroom in Mahim will definitely vouch for that. The employees worked in the showroom owned by Fortpoint dealers located on the ground floor of the four-storey building that collapsed on Monday night.

Sunil Kumar Mishra and his colleagues narrowly escaped death but they were grievously injured and admitted to Bandra’s BMC-run Bhabha Hospital and KEM Hospital in Parel respectively. They were pulled out alive from Altaf Mansion debris barely 10 minutes after the building came down.

Mishra had been working at the showroom for the last two years as a cleaner and a part-time watchman. On the night of June 10, at around 8pm, when all the other employees had left for the day, Mishra stayed back with Shankar Bhoir (50), another cleaner, to finish some pending work.

“The showroom houses some 15-odd Maruti cars. I was on my daily rounds of washing the cars, when I heard a loud thud. I was at the corner of the showroom cleaning a car when a ceiling slab fell on my leg and buried me from the waist down,” recalls Mishra.

“That’s when the first part of the building collapsed. Then the electricity went off, I lost consciousness. We were eventually pulled out by the rescuers. Our lives were saved,” said the 40-year-old.

Mishra suffered a head injury and has sustained fracture on his right leg. “We will monitor Mishra’s condition and take him for a surgery on his leg,” said Dr Pradip Bhosle, head, department of orthopaedics, KEM Hospital. Mishra’s colleague Bhoir sustained deep cuts on his leg and back. “Bhoir was standing outside the building when it collapsed. He sustained some bruises though. There was another cleaner with us who was admitted and then discharged,” said Mishra.

To the rescue

While the Altaf Mansion collapse  incident  was  reported  at  8.20 pm, the National Disaster Rescue Force reached the spot at around 1 am on Tuesday, after five hours of the incident. “We were informed of the incident at around 8.30pm after which we rushed from Pune, but we were caught in traffic and managed to reach around 1 am,” said a NDRF official. He said that the three teams of the NDRF will be stationed in Mumbai from June 15.

Remaining portion to be demolished

The senior civic officials in the BMC said that the remaining portion of the building is likely to be demolished after the completion of the rescue operation. “As the remaining part of the building is inhabitable,we may ask the authorities to demolish it,” said a senior civic official.

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