New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- At least three people, including a child and a 21-year-old pregnant woman, were killed while eight others injured after a four-storey building collapsed in northeast Delhi's New Seemapuri on Wednesday, partially damaging two adjoining structures and triggering a large-scale multi-agency rescue operation.
Officials said that 11 people have been rescued so far from the site, with eight injured shifted to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in Tahirpur for treatment.
The injured persons were Momin Mirja (56), Abdaan (3), Abdul Rehma (28), Devruddin (28), Salma (50), Chote (34), Sakina (35), and Samad (30). The deceased persons included a 12-year-old girl whose identity is yet to be determined, Gulafsa (21), who was in her fourth month of pregnancy, and a child.
The incident took place almost a month after a PG building collapsed in southwest Delhi's Satya Niketan on September 6, killing seven students.
The information about the building collapse in New Seemapuri, Shahdara was received by the authorities on Wednesday afternoon. The building had come down on a plot of about 25 square yards and partially damaged two other structures, which raised questions about the stability of the other buildings.
The collapsed building had stood on a 25-square-yard plot, partially damaging two adjoining structures and raising concerns over the stability of nearby buildings.
Delhi Fire Services has sent four fire tenders to the spot after getting an information about the incident at around 3:30 pm.
The personnel of Delhi Police, Delhi Fire Services, Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were engaged in rescue and relief operations.
In addition, local people helped the authorities and emergency responders in rescuing the people trapped beneath the building rubble. Moreover, rescue teams were still searching the site of the disaster for any more trapped people.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta directed the authorities to keep a close watch on the situation at the site of the building collapse. "Rescue and relief operations are underway at the site of the building collapse in Seemapuri," she said.
"The Delhi Fire Services, Delhi Police, DDMA, MCD, CATS, and NDRF have been directed to rescue all the trapped people and provide the best possible medical aid to those injured in the tragedy," the CM added.
CM Gupta also urged the concerned authorities to facilitate the rescue operations and provide all possible assistance to the affected people.
Details about the cause of the tragedy and the condition of those rescued from the building were not immediately available.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.