3rd-floor tenant saved lives of 4 families before fleeing; woman resident even abused him for waking her up

Navi Mumbai: A third floor tenant, Subrata Das (45), a driver by profession, saved the lives of four families while climbing down the building. He also tried to wake his three neighbours who died in the mishap. Das lived in the building with his wife Archana; his children are studying in his native place in Murshidabad, West Bengal.
Das normally wakes up at 3am to start driving towards Pune.On the day of the incident, he heard someone from the road shouting and asking him to leave the building. Das ran and asked his wife to get up and leave, but didn’t vacate the building before reaching out to others.
He first called his immediate neighbours, three or four people sharing the same unit, but they did not wake up and ended up in the debris. Two other families, one on the first and the other on the second floor, left for safer places and escaped unhurt after hearing Das. One woman started verbally abusing him when he woke her up middle of the night. She initially resisted his bid to get her out, but her family was saved.
Another resident, Devdatt Yadav, his wife Rinki and two minor daughters (10-month-old baby and 10-year-old girl), also escaped unhurt. He had plans of vacating the room by July 30. “The building’s condition was a concern from the start. I had decided to relocate for the safety of my family, but everything ended in debris,” said Yadav. — Umesh K Parida