Summary:
It seems the balcony collapsed under the weight of the girders after being weakened in the rains. Ram Lakhan was selling scrap to Zaheer and his father Asghar when the balcony collapsed on them. Pradeep and Arvind, Ram Narayan’s sons, were standing under the balcony of Ram Lakhan’s house when it collapsed.“Ram Narayan had kept steel girders, bought for the construction of his house, on the balcony of Ram Lakhan’s house. Ram Lakhan and Asghar had a narrow escape,” local police outpost in-charge Prabhat Balyan said. GHAZIABAD: At least three persons were injured when the balcony of a dilapidated single-storey house collapsed following incessant rain on Monday morning in Khoda area.The injured were identified as Zakir (22), Pradeep (28) and Arvind (23)..