Male’s Velaanage building, which houses the offices of a number of government ministries, was hit yesterday morning by flooding on a number of floors due to a loose water pipe, Haveeru has reported.
Equipment on both the building’s eighth and ninth floors has reportedly been damaged in the incident, which also led to parts of the ceiling on both of the levels collapsing and power cuts in five of the site’s elevators.
Mohamed Saleem, Senior Supervisor of Housing Ministry and the head of maintenance at the building told Haveeru that security officials at the site raised the alarm over the flooding at about 5.40am yesterday morning.
“When I checked, water was leaking from the office area of the ninth floor. A valve joint had come loose above the tea room,” he was quoted as saying in the report.
The administrative section of the Education Ministry was reportedly worst hit during the flood, though water reportedly managed to make its way down to the ground floor of the 14-storey building
High pressure has been blamed for the flooding, according to Haveeru.