VELLORE: A worker died and 12 others suffered injuries when a portion of an under construction
school
building collapsed near
Vellore
in
Tamil Nadu on Thursday afternoon.
The accident happened on the new campus of Pinchusion Montessori International School at Kondranthangal around 4pm.
Police rescued 13 construction workers from the debris. The injured were sent to CMC Hospital,
Government Vellore Medical College Hospital
and Kumaran Hospital. Later, one of them, identified as K Bakiyaraj (45) of Puthur village, died.
Two of the injured were critical, police said.
"The scaffolding was not erected properly. It could not withstand concrete roof laid today. And the roof collapsed," said a construction worker who was at the site when the accident happened.