At least four people were killed and ten others seriously injured on Sunday when the boundary wall of an abandoned rice mill collapsed near a weekly market in Odisha's Dhenkanal district.
Trading activities were underway when a portion of the boundary wall suddenly caved in, killing four people on spot — all of them vendors, Abhinab Dalua, the inspector in-charge of Dhenkanal Town Police Station, said.
Expressing grief over the death of the four people in the wall collapse, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased, the CM office said.
Free treatment will be provided to the injured, he said. Dhenkanal district Collector Nikhil Pavan Kalyan said, he has also sanctioned Rs 25,000 each for the families of the deceased persons. A team of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force, along with fire brigade personnel and police officers, carried out the rescue operation.
