Bulandshahr : A 30-year-old daily-wage worker and his teenager nephew were killed after their dilapidated house collapsed during rain in Uttar Pradesh ’s Bulandshahr district in the early hours of Friday, police said.
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Police said the bodies were sent for postmortem examinations and further legal proceedings were underway. A rescue team, which included personnel from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), worked through the night to pull the three family members out of the rubble. Download the TOI App.
Rajesh Prasad and his nephew Sachin Kumar, 19, were asleep with Prasad’s 70-year-old mother, Chandrakala, at their ancestral house on Azad Road in Chhatari when the structure collapsed around 1am.
Sachin had come to visit his uncle, to whom he was very close, the family said.
“The two men were pulled out about an hour later, but doctors at a local community health centre declared them dead on arrival,” additional district magistrate Abhishek Singh said. Chandrakala was rescued alive and taken to a hospital in Aligarh in critical condition.