India, Oct. 8 -- A child aged around a year and a half was killed and at least eight people, including a three-year-old child, were injured after a four-storey building in collapsed in northeast Delhi's Seemapuri area on Wednesday, officials said.

Eight people have been rescued in an injured condition and sent to hospitals, they added.

The body of a child aged around a year and a half with its head severed was pulled out of the rubble, the officials said. Authorities are suspecting that cracks that appeared in the building following tremors caused by an earthquake in Uttarakhand on Tuesday evening may have led to the incident.

Locals said they could hear the voices of those trapped under the debris.

The actual cause of the collapse is...