Kartik Aaryan’s Relatives Die In Ghatkopar Hoarding Collapse, Actor Attends Funeral

Kartik Aaryan’s relatives Manoj Chansoria and Anita Chansoria are among the deceased who were killed in a hoarding collapse in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area on Monday.

Sixteen people were killed in a hoarding collapse in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area on Monday. Kartik Aaryan’s relatives Manoj Chansoria and Anita Chansoria were among the deceased, who were in the city to obtain visas for the United States where their son lives. According to reports, their bodies were recovered on Wednesday in a severely decomposed state.  

Kartik Aaryan's relatives killed

According to Indian Express, Manoj, 60, and Anita, 59, had traveled from Madhya Pradesh to Mumbai for the visa process. Manoj had retired as Air Traffic Control (ATC) general manager in March. The couple’s disappearance became apparent when their phones went unreachable on Monday afternoon, prompting their son Yash to contact his father’s former colleagues and local authorities in Mumbai for assistance. Manoj had been stationed in Mumbai for a year before his retirement, making his colleagues familiar with the city. 

Using tracking methods, Mumbai Police and Manoj’s colleagues located the couple’s last known position in Ghatkopar, near the Eastern Express Highway. Their car was discovered crushed under a 250-tonne hoarding that had been brought down by strong winds. “As soon as he realised that his parents were missing on Monday, their son boarded a flight from the United States. Their final rites were conducted at a crematorium in Sahar on Thursday,” a family friend was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.   

Kartik Aaryan attended the last rites of his relatives in Mumbai. 

About Ghatkopar hoarding collapse

On May 13, a massive hoarding measuring 120x120 feet (14,400 sq. feet) collapsed onto a petrol pump and a few residential structures in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area, resulting in 16 fatalities and injuring 88 others. 

Mumbai police arrested the owner of the hoarding from his hideout in Udaipur, Rajasthan. 

In addition to the human casualties, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) reported on Thursday that civic teams have so far recovered the mangled remains of 71 vehicles, including two trucks, 31 four-wheelers, eight autorickshaws, and 30 two-wheelers.