Fatal billboard collapse in India

At least 14 people were killed and scores more injured after a giant advertising billboard fell onto a petrol station in a suburb of Mumbai during a sudden storm

Advertising billboard

20m 66ft

Customers and people sheltering from rain under Bharat Petroleum station canopy crushed when billboard blows over

Ghatkopar billboard size: 36.6m x 36.6m (120ft x 120ft)
Maximum permitted size: 12.2m x 12.2m (40ft x 40ft)


5km 3 miles


Ghatkopar: Illegally erected billboard weighed over 200 tonnes

MUMBAI
Ghatkopar




INDIA
Mumbai


Sources: BBC, Reuters, Times of India, Open Street Map
Picture: Google Earth
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