8 Dead, 59 Injured After Huge Billboard Falls During Mumbai Dust Storm [Video]

New Delhi:

Twenty people are feared trapped under the debris of a massive billboard that collapsed on a fuel station amid a strong dust storm in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar this evening. Police said eight people were killed and 59 were injured.

The billboard was opposite the fuel station. Visuals show the structure crashing down right in the middle of the refuelling facility. The civic authorities are looking whether the billboard advertisement agency had permission to install the structure.

The metal frame of the billboard tore through the roof of several cars that were at the fuel station.

“I was there when a big hoarding of some builder fell down. All the cars, bikes and people that were there got stuck. We helped people get out and somehow manage to escape,” an eyewitness, Swapnil Khupte, told news agency ANI.

The police said teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are at the site, …