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Three people, including a contractor and two-sub-contractors, have been arrested after seven labourers were killed and one critically injured when an elevator of an under-construction building collapsed in the Panjra Pol area of Ahmedabad Wednesday.

The accident is said to have happened at around 9:00 am Wednesday when the centring of a terrace of the under-construction Adore Aspire 2 building collapsed on the labourers working in the elevator duct.

“It was reported that the labourers fell in the basement. Six of them—Jagdish Naik (21), Sanjay Babubhai Naik (20), Ashwin Naik (20), Sanjay Mangabhai Naik (24), Shailesh Naik (20) and Mukesh Naik (25)—were working on a plank. So, when the centring of the terrace collapsed, they fell into the basement. The other two—Rajmal Kharadi (25) and Pankaj Kharadi (21)—who were working at the open side of the sixth floor also fell due to the collapse of the centring,” stated a release from the police. “They were taken out by the other labourers working at the site and were rushed to hospitals by 108 emergency services,” said Om Jadeja, Divisional Fire Officer at Ahmedabad.