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AGRA: Two persons died and five others were grievously injured after a basement wall of an under-construction house collapsed at Vijkauli village in Bah sub-division of Agra on Sunday morning.One Jodh Singh was constructing his house and was building a basement. The basement floor was filled with a layer of soil and water was poured to make the soil compact. On cold Sunday morning, some villagers were sitting around a bonfire near a newly constructed wall, when it suddenly collapsed, burying all the men under the debris.Hearing their screams, other villagers rushed to the spot and pulled the injured out and took them to Bah community health centre, said SHO Satyasev Sharma.Seven people got injured and two of them, Hiralal Yadav (65) and Yogesh Yadav (45), died in hospital.Ramendra Singh (58), Sunil Kumar (38), Bhore Lal, Kallu (32) and Uttam Prajapati (45) have been admitted to different hospitals in Agra and are stable and out of danger, said police.DCP (Agra East) Abhishek Agrawal said, “We have not yet received any complaint from the families of the deceased or the injured.”
