Adjacent building starts collapsing, rescue work stopped GOANEWS DESK, CANACONA | 06 January 2014 13:49 IST
Another building, adjacent to the collapsed building of Ruby Residency, has also started collapsing. As a result, the rescue work has been stopped by the authorities. There is nobody staying in this building as it was also under construction. South Goa collector Venecio Furtado told goanews.com that the painted building adjacent to the collapsed building has started tilting. “We could even notice major cracks developed in the building. The rescue work has thus been stopped”, he said. One house, which is close to this building, has also been evacuated, said Furtado. Even electricity to the whole area has been cut off, as a safety measure. It is a block of four buildings, even having a common staircase, one building of which had collapsed on 4 January, causing major mishap. The adjacent buildings had developed cracks, but the rescue teams had continued its work pulling out people even alive, taking risk. Realising the danger of adjacent buildings collapsing, the authorities had yesterday evening had stopped the work for a while, but then decided to resume it at night. However, Furtado said they had no other option than to stop the rescue work since one building has started tilting. The rescue teams had succeeded in pulling out 45 workers trapped inside, including 17 dead bodies. The authorities have also managed to get information about 10 more workers trapped inside while few more may also be trapped. -------------- COMMENT ON GOANET@FACEBBOK by Tony Martin: While BJP-basher Tejpal is still languishing in Sada jail I wonder what course the maiden Canacona building collapse disaster will take. I wonder why our local MLA Mr. Tawadkar does not prefer to comment on this grave tragedy. Unless I missed it, I wonder why there is no interview of Tawadkar so far. (BTW we have 20+ news correspondents from the print media in Canacona.) He should have been questioned because he is the MLA and more importantly because he is one of the residents of Ruby residency. BTW everyone knows the incompetent Goa police and in this case they are going that proverbial extra mile on cementing the incompetency tag by arresting a 'poor' supervisor.... Goa's Mandovi Bridge collapsed after 16 years. Now we have under-construction buildings crumbling down. Quo Vadis Goa? Welcome to a trending new culture called *violations*.