Mumbai: Car parking lift collapses at 21-storey residential building in Borivali, one killed, another injured

A car parking lift collapsed at a 21-storey residential building in Mumbai’s Borivali West area on Saturday killing one man and injuring the other, PTI reported civic officials as saying.

According to the report, the accident took place around 11 am at Prathamesh Building, which is located on Link Road, said the Mumbai Fire Brigade.

An official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) later informed that the car lift plunged into a 7-metre-deep pit, trapping two persons.

Following the incident, the victims, Shubham Madamlal Dhuri (30) and Sunjeet Yadav (45), were rescued by firefighters and rushed to the nearby BMC-run Shatabdi Hospital.

“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,” PTI quoted the BMC official as saying.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, the official added.

Previous incidents:

Earlier in May, a tragic road accident on the Gandhi Bridge resulted in six fatalities. An SUV reportedly collided with a divider along the Dhule-Solapur National Highway, marking a close shave with life for the passengers. However, a crash a few moments later resulted in the death of all of the SUV passengers who had stepped out of the vehicle to remove it from the divider. The road accident was reported to have occurred around 11:00 PM, said the police. 

“Six people died on the Gandhi Bridge along the Dhule-Solapur National Highway near Gevrai town when an SUV hit a divider at around 11 pm last night. No one was injured initially. While passengers stepped out of the vehicle to remove it from the divider, a speeding truck rammed into them. All six people died on the spot. Further investigation is on,” ANI quoted Beed Superintendent of Police Navneet Kanwat as saying.

With agency inputs.