India, March 1 -- A 50-year-old migrant mason was killed and five others injured after a makeshift platform collapsed at an under-construction building in Subhash Nagar, Chembur, on Saturday morning.

The incident occurred at around 10 am at Building No 36, where eight workers were constructing a car lift on the sixth floor of a building by the Adityaraj Group. According to eyewitness Soni Devi, the sister-in-law of one of the workers, the 'pranchi', a temporary platform comprising a metal surface overlaid with plywood, bent and snapped under the weight of the concrete slabs meant for the lift, sending six of the eight workers plunging downwards.

The deceased was identified as Desapogu Ramanjaneyulu, a native of Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh...