India, May 21 -- Six people died and five others suffered injuries when a slab collapsed from the fourth floor of a four-storeyed dilapidated Shri Saptashrungi building, in Chiknipada, Kalyan East, at 1:30 pm on Tuesday. As the slab gave way, it resulted in the successive collapse of the third and second floors - all of it collecting in a heap of debris on the ground floor.

The building, constructed in 1995, was declared dangerous for living by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC)'s J-Ward last month, following which the municipal commissioner Abhinav Goyal had ordered civic officials to carry out its structural audit. Designed in a Z-shape, it has 52 flats; 20 families were residing in it at the time of the crash.

The fourt...