4 dead, several trapped as Delhi building collapses, 14 rescued
NEW DELHI,APR 19 : At least four people were killed as a four-storey building collapsed in northeast Delhi in the early hours of Saturday, with around twelve people still feared trapped under the debris, police said.
The incident occurred in the Mustafabad area. According to the police, at least 14 people have been rescued so far and were shifted to the GTB Hospital where four were declared dead upon arrival. The incident was reported at 3:02 am.
Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), firefighters, and Delhi Police have rushed to the spot. The police further said that they are probing the cause behind the building’s collapse.
A senior NDRF official highlighted the difficulty being faced by the rescue teams in moving heavy machinery in the congested alleys of Mustafabad to clear the debris, adding that around 12 people are still trapped.
In the CCTV footage shared by a local resident at around 2:30 am on Saturday, the exact moment of the collapse has been captured. A huge gust of wind and dust can be seen blowing across the alley, just after the building collapsed.
Last week, two people were killed and three injured in separate incidents – a building collapse and a wall collapse – in the Delhi-NCR region.
An under-construction wall on the sixth floor of a building in Delhi’s Madhu Vihar resulted in the death of a 67-year-old man.
The other incident, a wall collapse, was reported from Delhi’s Karol Bagh area. A 13-year-old boy was killed as a newly-constructed balcony on the third floor collapsed on top of him as he was crossing the streets at that time.
–PTI
