Five members of a family, including an elderly woman, were dramatically rescued after their first-floor house partially collapsed following heavy rain in Mysuru’s Mandi Mohalla on Friday morning.
The two-storey house, said to be 70 years old and housing two shops on the ground floor and a house on the first, started giving way due to heavy rain on Thursday. This is the third building crash in Mysuru in the past 48 hours.
Sources in the fire and emergency service department said a part of the first-floor house with sheet roof caved in after shops on the ground floor housing a tailoring shop and a footwear stall completely collapsed around 6.15am. The building is on Kali temple street in Tilak Nagar.
Five persons -- Mahadev Rao, wife Nagaratna, children Akshay and Prithvi, and elderly woman Neelamma Bai, who were residing on the first floor on lease -- got trapped in the house. The occupants gingerly shifted to a seemingly safer room in the house. With the staircase leading to the first floor collapsed, the occupants trapped in the room were shifted to safety by the fire force personnel who dropped ladders and ropes from neighbouring buildings. They cut open the roof sheet to access the house.
