A portion of a housing society's boundary wall collapsed here on Tuesday morning, killing four constructio💦n workers and injuring eight, police said.
All 12 who had been burie𝓡d under the rubble at Jal Vayu Vihar in Sector 21 around 10 am were labourers.
"A total of 12 labourers were pulled out of the rubble. Four of them died while ot𒈔hers suffered injuries in the episode," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ashutosh Dwivedi told reporters.
Multiple JCBs were deployed to clear the debris of the collapsed stretch of the wall that was located adjacent to a drain, officials said as police and fire department personnel swung into action for immediate rescue and relie�🌸�f measures.
Expressing grief over the💖 loss of lives, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed senior officers to reach the spot, the Chief Minister's Office said.
"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the loss of lives in the wall collapse incident in Gautam Budh Nagar. He directed senior officials 🌳to rush to the spot and conduct relief work on a war footing," his office said in a tweet in Hindi.
He also directed the officials to ensure proper t🔜reatment of the injured, the Chief Minister's Office said.
Police Commissioner Alok Singh, Joint Commissioner Love Kumar and Noida Authority CEO R🌳itu Maheshwari reached the spot. Fire service officials, including its chief Arun Kumar Singh, were also there to oversee relief measures, the officials🐽 said.
Maheshwari said repair work was b🔥eing carried out on the drain when the accident occurred✨.
"The Jal Vayu Vihar socie📖ty is an old-construction society. The boundary wall was also constructed by the society itself and looked weak," she said.
The work on the d𒁃rain outside the society was being carried out on the request of the society by a Noida Authority contractor through a tender, she said.
"The labourers working on th♊e drain repair came under the wall, which suddenly collapsed. There were 12-13 persons at the spot. Of those rescued, one is injured and the remaining are fine," Maheshwari said.
On the contractor bein🤡g cautioned by𝔉 locals that the boundary wall was weak, the Noida Authority CEO said the matter would be investigated.
&qu❀ot;A join🔯t investigation by the police, the district administration and the Noida Authority will be carried out and if negligence is found on anybody's part then action would be taken against them.
"The contractor was workin♛g on the drain and not the boundary💯 wall," she clarified
(With PTI Inputs)
