3 hurt in house collapse

Vijayawada: In a tragic incident, three persons of a same family were seriously wounded when a house collapsed on them after huge boulders fell over the asbestos roof on the hillock at Tailorpet in 37th division in the city on Monday.

The mishap occurred due to the impact of rains for the last three days. The injured were identified as Karabotu Sambaiah 45, his brother Karabotu Srinivasa Rao,30, and his wife Lakshmi, 25. The two brothers are Hamali workers in one town.

When they were sleeping in the house some boulders fell on the roof with a deafening sound. Within no time, the house collapsed resulting in serious injuries to them. The injured were immediately shifted to Government General hospital.

Sambaiah sustained hand and leg fractures while Lakshmi suffered backbone injury.  The family members were panicked with the mishap and could not recover from the shock for many hours.

Later, some rocks fell on two homes in the same area at about 7 am. But no one was hurt in the incidents. Municipal officials and Vijayawada West Constituency YSRCP In-charge Velampalli Srinivas visited the accident site on hillock and consoled the other family members and relatives.

He alleged that the VMC and the State government are neglecting the problems of the residents living on the hill areas. Boulders also crashed to ground on Indrakeeladri hillock on the national highway between Durga temple and Kummaripalem on Monday.

The landslides were caused due to heavy rains for the last three days in the hilly areas in the district.  Nearly, two lakh people were living on the hilly areas in the city.

People living in thatched and kutcha houses are prone to deaths and injuries in hilly areas during rainy season. A mother and child died on a hillock in Tailorpet about three years ago when rocks fell on a home.