Three-story house collapsed in an instant because the raging rats

A 3-storey house in Agra, northern India collapsed after the mice dug the foundation for years.

Heavy rain on the night of April 14 caused the lower part of the house in Kacheri Ghat to fill with water. Sudhir Kumar Ver, the landlord and 8 other family members were quickly evacuated because they feared the house was no longer safe.

The foundation is completely opaque.

"The foundation is completely opaque , " Ravi Mathur, a local official, told The Times of Indian. According to Mr. Ravi, the landlord has tried to kill mice but failed. "Most of the debris falls into the vacant land rather than falling into another house," Mr. Ravi said.

Kacheri Ghat is one of the famous areas in the historic city of Agra raging. This rodent has made caves under houses, making their nails weak as well as damaging water pipes, roads and some other structures.

Agra Mayor Naveen Jain pledged to meet local officials to find a way to deal with the rat epidemic.

"Although the collapsed houses are old, the fact that some of the neighborhoods in the ancient city were ravaged by rats and the foundations of houses were ruined," Naveen said.