Greater Noida: At least four families had 10 members trapped under the rubble of the two buildings that collapsed in Shahberi on Tuesday.Shamshad, whose body was found on Wednesday morning, worked as a painter for a contractor who supplied labour to the developer of one of the buildings. His friend Mohammed Akram, who had been camping at the site since Tuesday night, said there could be at least two more friends trapped under the debris, including Shamshad’s cousin Kallu, and another friend, Sonu. They, too, worked as painters and hailed from Mainpuri.Another victim, Ranjit, who left behind his wife and two children, worked as a mason at another project of the same builder. He was from Malda in Bengal and was staying the night in a makeshift shelter in one of the buildings that caved in. Ranjit’s wife Ranjana and their children Anurag and Kiran were inconsolable.His daughter Kiran, a student of Delhi University’s Maharaja Agrasen college, wondered if people responsible for the tragedy would ever be put to task. “Will anybody be caught? How can an illegal building come up in such a city? Who will bear the responsibility?” she asked.As relatives and friends of the Trivedi family, whose four members died in the tragedy, watched in horror the bodies being brought out, they, too, questioned if the developers responsible would ever be punished. They claimed that two brokers — Shamshuddin Khan and Shahabuddin — were involved in the sale of buildings that had come up in the area without their plans being approved.Vimla Dixit, aunt of Shiv Kumar Trivedi who had a flat in one of the buildings and was found dead, got into an argument with Rajeev Singh, the circle officer, as she felt that rescue operations were too slow. “We are losing hope with every passing minute,” she told TOI.

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