Uttar Pradesh: Four Dead, Five Injured After Lift Crashes At Greater Noida Building

Noida Lift Collapse: The incident happened at an under-construction building of Amrapali housing society in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida.

Representative image. The incident happened in Greater Noida area

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Noida Lift Collapse: At least four people are feared dead after a lift crashed at an under-construction building of Amrapali housing society from the 14th floor in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida. Rescue operations are going on at the site.

After getting information of the lift collapse, police reached the spot and rushed the injured to hospital. Five people are in a critical condition.

Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate Manish Verma said an investigation has been launched into the incident.

"Four people have died. Five people are in critical condition and undergoing treatment in a city hospital. Our team is present in the city hospital...our officers are also present on the site and no one is stranded there. Proper treatment is being given," ANI quoted Verma as saying.

The incident took place at the under construction site of Amrapali Dream Valley society around 8.30 am, Additional DCP (Central Noida) Rajeev Dixit told PTI. "The service lift fell from the 14th floor height," Dixit said.

An FIR has been registered against 10 named accused, including GMs of Girdhari Lal Constructions Harish Sharma, Rishabh Arora, Lovejeet, Vikas, Aditya Chandra and mechanical in charge Rahul, site in charge Devendra Sharma, Sunil, Shailendra, and other officials, ANI reported. FIR has been registered at Bisrakh Police Station u/s 304, 308, 337, 338, 287, 34 and Section 7 of Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013, it stated.

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The development comes days after seven workers were killed when a service lift crashed in a building in Maharashtra's Thane.

The workers were coming down in the service lift after completing some waterproofing works on the terrace of the skyrise. Suddenly,  there was a technical snag midway and the lift rope snapped. The lift hurtled down at high speed and crashed, killing sseven and leaving one labourer critically injured.

Several incidents of lift malfunction and crashes have been reported from high-rise societies in Noida and Greater Noida in recent months.

In August, a 73-year-old woman died of possible cardiac arrest after a lift crashed at a housing complex in Noida. The lift did not hit the ground and got caught between some of the middle floors of the building.