Jamshedpur, May 5 -- The quiet Saturday evening at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College and Hospital that turned into a scene of horror when a dilapidated balcony outside the third-floor Medicine Department collapsed, has claimed lives of three patients and leaving one woman critically injured.
The incident occurred around 6:30 PM, when five people - mostly attendants and patients - were resting in the corridor adjacent to the medicine ward. Without warning, the ageing balcony structure gave way with a deafening crash. The impact sent chunks of concrete and metal crashing down, burying the victims under the debris and triggering panic throughout the hospital.
Witnesses described a scene of chaos and confusion. Bystanders and ...