2 houses collapsed near the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi on Tuesday morning. In which 9 people, including a female policeman on duty, were buried in the debris. After the incident, the police was informed about it. Its NDRF team pulled out 8 people in a rescue operation that lasted for 6 hours. A woman has died in the accident. It is being told that this accident took place around 3 o'clock in the morning.
Rescue had to be done manually because of the narrow street
The rescue team had to face a lot of difficulty to pull out the people trapped inside the debris. Because the street where the house is built is narrow and the machine cannot go there. After which the entire rescue operation was done manually, then people were pulled out from the wreckage. That is why the rescue operation took 6 hours.
PM talked to the police officer
Varanasi MP PM Modi spoke to the police officer on this matter. He also asked about the current status of the Police Commissioner. The commissioner said that compensation will be given to the dead woman and the injured. The injured are being treated at the hospital.
Accident due to lack of permission
At the same time, local people said that the landlord wanted to fix the house, but permission has to be taken for any construction in Kashi Vishwanath Parikshetra. He sought permission from the temple administration to the municipal corporation to demolish the house or to order repairs, but the permission was not given. He had also asked for materials to repair the house.