It was a close shave for five senior citizens who narrowly escaped serious injury recently, when a gazebo-like seating structure suddenly collapsed at a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run garden in Sion East.

The ground-floor gazebo featured a galvanised iron frame topped with a heavy cement slab roof, which collapsed while the group was sitting underneath, our report stated. Even before emergency responders could arrive, bystanders rushed all injured residents to Sion Hospital. All five were stable.