Noida Twin Towers Demolition LIVE Updates: Police urge people to vacate area near demolition site

The twin towers— Apex (103 metres) and Ceyane (94 metres) — will be the tallest buildings inIndia whose implosion will be engineered, an exercise that needed six months of extensive preparation and unprecedented in terms of its scale and challenge as well as the quantum of explosives used to bring down a building in India. In the 2020 demolitions of illegal waterfront buildings at Maradu (Kochi), the only comparable exercise, around 1,600kg of explosives was used, according to reports. Families evacuated from their homes at Emerald Court and the adjacent ATS Greens Village through Saturday with balconies, common areas, swimming pools, lawns and benches all wrapped in plastic to protect them from the massive cloud of dust the twin towers’ collapse will generate. Though the evacuation deadline is 7am on Sunday, residents said both societies — comprising around 1,400 families — will empty out well in advance.