Mumbai: Toll in billboard collapse rises to 16, BMC asks railways to remove oversized hoardings
The police have launched a manhunt to trace the owner of Ego Media, the agency that had installed the billboard.
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Two more bodies have been recovered from a car stuck under a billboard that collapsed on a petrol pump in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area, taking the toll due to the accident to 16, reported ANI on Wednesday.
The accident occurred on Monday at around 4.30 pm near the Chheda Nagar Gymkhana when the city was hit by a duststorm. A day later, the National Disaster Response Force said it had rescued 74 people from the spot.
The bodies of retired Air Traffic Control manager Manoj Chansoria, 60, and his wife Anita, 59, were found inside their car on Wednesday night, reported NDTV.
Meanwhile, the city’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, issued notices to the Central Railway and the Western Railway, asking them to remove billboards on their land that are larger than the allowed size of 40×40 feet, according to PTI.
“Taking into consideration the geographical position of Mumbai, the coastal region, its weather and wind conditions, the civic body has decided not to permit the erection of hoardings larger than 40×40 feet in size,” the civic body said.
It also claimed it had undertaken a demolition drive against illegal hoardings “on war footing”.
After the accident, the municipal corporation said it had not granted any permission or no-objection certificate to the billboard,...
