Building walls collapse due to strong winds

Kondapur: In an incident the walls of an under-construction building collapsed due to strong winds and no casualties were reported. The incident took place near Gautami enclave at Kondapur on Thursday.

Around 4 pm the pedestrians and the resident’s people heard a loud noise. When they ran, they saw the building had collapsed. The building for which the builders were working hard since more than two months, collapsed in seconds. Some of the society people had no clue about the incident until they saw after the rainfall stopped.

Rajnish, a builder at the site said, “The structure may have collapsed due to lightning. Usually, once the construction gets over we install the equipment to prevent the building collapse from a thunder strike. It was nearing completion and the workers have been working here since long time and now we have to look on everything which is damaged so that we can work further on it.”

The officials said, “The original structure was under construction of three additional stores and the work had begun three months ago to convert it into an apartment complex but we are yet to confirm this and are examining sanction plans.”

Usha pedestrian at Kondapur said, “I was about to reach my home from office and I saw that people are working for the building construction, later they were seen shouting loudly because the building suddenly collapsed and nobody could help of what was happening. Some of the cops were seen helping them while this incident happened.”