The outer balcony of an old dilapidated shop building near Jalebi Chowk on Kothi Road of Vanshahr suddenly fell down. In this accident, the youth who had set up a rakhi cart below the shop and the passersby had a narrow escape. A beauty parlor was also running above the shop in the dilapidated building, which was also saved. However, at the time of the accident, the owner of the beauty parlor, Indra Kumari, was present in the parlor, who got very scared after the accident.
Giving information about the accident, Deepak Kumar told that he sets up a rakhi cart just below the dilapidated shop whose balcony has fallen. He told that today morning at around 11:15 am, when he was standing with his cart, the balcony of the dilapidated building above suddenly fell down, but he had a narrow escape. He told that there was goods worth about 50 thousand rupees on the cart, which got completely damaged after coming under the debris. The debris that fell from the building spread all over the market. However, it was fortunate that there was no crowd in the market at the time of the accident, otherwise a passerby could have also been caught in the accident.
The husband of Indra, a woman who runs a beauty parlor, said that his wife was in the beauty parlor at the time of the accident. He said that the room of the beauty parlor did not collapse in the accident, otherwise there could have been loss of life and property. Parminder Batra, who has a shop near the collapsed building, said that after the accident, the explosion was so loud that he ran out of his shop about 30 meters away. He said that the city council administration should identify the dilapidated old buildings and demolish them themselves so that any kind of untoward incident can be avoided. There was an atmosphere of fear in the market due to the collapse of the dilapidated building.
