Six members of a family killed as house roof collapse in Bidar's Chilla Galli village
Bidar: Six members of a family were killed after the roof of their house collapsed on Tuesday night here at Chilla Galli village of Basavakalyan Taluk in Bidar District.
The deceased have been identified as Nadeem Shaikh, his wife Farida Begum, and their children Aysha Banu, Mehtabi, Farhan Ali and Faizan Ali.
According to the reports Nadeem was a fruit seller and had constructed this house of Mud with his har earned money near Jamia Masjid of Chilla Galli with the roof made of mud. The roof collapsed on Tuesday night when Nadeem along with his family was sleeping in the house, killing all the six members of the family.
The bodies of the deceased were taken out on Thursday morning. MLA B Narayan Rao visited and inspected the accident spot on Thursday morning.
Locals suspected that the roof of the house collapsed due to the heavy rain in the region over the last few days.
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Death toll in Mundathikode fireworks explosion rises to 16
Thrissur (Kerala) (PTI): One more person who had been hospitalised following the Mundathikode fireworks explosion died at Thrissur Medical College on Sunday, police said.
With this, the death toll in the incident has risen to 16.
According to Thrissur Medical College police, the deceased has been identified as Unnikrishnan from Edappal, who was among the 38 persons present at the fireworks manufacturing unit in Mundathikode where the explosions occurred on April 21.
Police said Unnikrishnan had suffered over 80 per cent burns and had remained in critical condition.
The condition of the two other injured persons remains critical, police said.
Of the 38 persons present at the site, 16 have died, while four remain missing.
The fireworks were being manufactured for Thiruvambady Devaswom as part of the Thrissur Pooram festivities.
The licensee of the unit had also suffered burn injuries and had died earlier.
