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50,000 flee Ahmedabad high-rises

More than 50,000 people living in high-rise buildings in quake-hit parts of Ahmedabad have left their houses fearing fresh tremors.

Panic-stricken people have vacated their houses since Friday and moved out to open spaces or other places they consider safer.

People living in about 10,000 flats in nearly 412 high-rise buildings have moved out, civic sources said.

Some high-rise apartments in Satellite, Drive-in, Vastrapur, Ambavadi and Vasna areas have developed cracks.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority have issued notices to residents of vulnerable buildings to keep them empty for the next 15 days.

People have taken shelter in open spaces, gardens, alongside the highway and in makeshift shelters.

Tanmay Shah, a college student who has also moved out with his family members, said it was more to do with panic than precaution.

Almost all the parking slots in buildings in the western part of the city, which earlier used to be packed with vehicles, wore a deserted look.

PTI

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