A building in Secunderabad's Chilkalguda locality collapsed late on Monday night killing 2 people. Local police sources said the building was an old one and had been marked as unsafe for living. The building is said to have collapsed due to heavy rain in the region. Meanwhile rescue operations were under way and injured were given medical assistance. 5 were injured in this mishap. The police said initial reports of the collapse came in at around 10:30 p.m. on Monday. They also said they immediately sent their own rescue teams and the fire service personnel to assess the situation and find out if anyone was trapped under the debris of the building. They worked throughout the night to ensure that this was not the case.

They said the building had been marked as unsafe to live in, with local authorities having warned those residing in or operating out of the building that it was in danger of collapsing any time. Despite that, people lived in the upper floors of the building and there were shops in the ground floor. Monday's late night incident comes just over a week after two people were killed in Film Nagar in Hyderabad when a construction slab of an under-construction building collapsed from several storeys up, bringing down several people with it.