Source: NEPS - http://www.nepsindia.com
Aizawl, April 25:
The state government has given an ex-gratia of Rs 50,000 each to the families of the victims who lost their lives in the Assembly Secretariat retaining wall collapse of Friday.
Relief & Rehabilitation minister Lalrinchhana, visiting each of the victims� house on Saturday, gave the money to the families.
It is not known about the ex-gratia that the government would give to the ten women who suffered injuries in the tragedy.
A retaining wall of the Assembly Secretariat had collapsed Friday afternoon, falling on stall keepers at the Treasury Square market here right in the busy secretariat complex of the state government.
Two women died on the spot while another succumbed to her injuries after reaching the Aizawl Civil Hospital.
Of the three fatalities, two were shoppers, Ten other women were also injured at the incident.
All ten injured are being given treatment at the Aizawl Civil Hospital where emergency operations were carried out on those who needed it.
Hospital sources said except for Chawngtluangi, who remains unconsciousness at the time of filing this report, the other nine women are not critical and that they were given the best treatment and round-the-clock vigil.
The majority of the injured have fractured bones from being buried under heavy cubic stones and earth.