Meerut: Four people have been killed when a disputed building in Meerut collapsed during its demolition on Saturday, police said.
The Cantonment Board demolished a building without properly evacuating all the people inside.
Five persons were pulled out of the rubble and rescue and relief operations were underway, a district official said.
#WATCH Moment of the fall - building falls during an anti-encroachment drive in Meerut Cantonment (UP), 4 killed.https://t.co/ZKyZAAV9Et— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 9, 2016
The three-storey building is located in the Cantonment area. It was under dispute and Cantonment Board officials had gone to demolish it.
Local shopkeepers opposed the drive but by then one pillar of the building had been pulled down. Over a dozen persons standing inside the building were trapped under the rubble.
Cantonment Board officials and other staff members fled the scene as the building caved in.
An FIR has been registered against the Cantonment Board officials.
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