Building Collapses In Tamil Nadu's Erode Leaving Three Dead And Three Severely Injured

All six had come to sell their millets and other products at the weekly shandy which was closed down for the past two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Building collapse in Tamil Nadu's Erode. (Image: IANS)

Chennai: Three persons were killed and three others injured after a shop at Car street in Anthiyur in Erode district collapsed at 12.50 AM on Monday. All six had come to sell their millets and other products at the weekly shandy which was closed down for the past two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The shandy was supposed to close on Monday at 6 AM and the victims and the injured were waiting for it to open and were sleeping outside an electric shop when the building collapsed.

M Sinthan, 55, from Thattakarai, S. Mahadevan, 55, and T. Chinnapayian, 35, from Sengulam died in the building collapse. K. Rajesh, 30, and K. Mahendran, 17, both from Chinna Sengulam and S. Sivamoorthy, 45, from Kongadai suffered minor injuries and were treated at Government Hospital in Anthiyur.

The dead bodies of the deceased were shifted to the Government Hospital at Erode district's Anthiyur for Postmortem. Police said that the weekly markets that function from 6 AM to 8 PM were closed down for the past two months following the Covid-19 pandemic. The markets were to reopen on Monday at 6 AM and farmers from various villages around Anthiyur frequent the market to sell their products.

The farmers generally arrive on Sunday night with their products and sleep anywhere and return back to their native villages on Monday.

(With inputs from IANS)