Two killed as shop's canopy collapses in Ballabhgarh
Gurugram, July 16 -- Two men were killed after a canopy and concrete lintel of a closed roadside shop collapsed on them near Chawla Colony in Faridabad's Ballabhgarh on Wednesday, police said.
The victims, Amarjeet (single name), 27, a native of Munger and Santosh (single name), 24, a native of Bhagalpur, in Bihar, were cousins and lived in Jeevan Nagar, Sector-23, Faridabad. The incident took place at 10am, police said.
A senior police officer said the duo were visiting their sister in Sarai in Sector-37. They stopped at the shop for tea and snacks, but found it shut. "They sat on the stairs when the concrete lintel and a heavy canopy suddenly collapsed, trapping them under the debris," he said.
Police said locals rushed them to government hospital in Ballabgarh, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.
Police said the shop was owned by a resident of Ahirwara and had been closed for the past three days.
Inspector Umesh Kumar, station house officer of the City Ballabgarh police station said the structure appeared to be old and in a dilapidated condition....
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