A building collapses in Chennai

A 35-year-old woman had a miraculous escape when a portion of a 150-year-old building in Sullivan Street at Santhome in Chennai collapsed on Monday morning.

The two-storey building belonging to the CSI St Thomas English Church collapsed when Jansi Navarajan, a homemaker, came out of the building to sweep the courtyard. Her son, Naveen Raj, had gone to school. Her husband, Navarajan, is a sepoy in the Army and is working in Hyderabad.

Church authorities told TOI that they had issued notices to the tenants six months ago to vacate the building as they wanted to demolish it.

An aged couple, who were living on the first floor, had moved to their daughter's house in the area recently. However, their belongings were still kept in the building.

Chennai Corporation authorities said they would demolish the remaining part of the building on Monday night.

The incident happened 10 days after an under-construction building collapsed at Moulivakkam in Chennai, killing 61 people.

As many as 11 people were killed when a wall collapsed at Upparapalayam near Chennai on Sunday.


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