VIDEO | Four dead, several feared trapped after 4-storey building collapses in Delhi

At least four persons were killed and several others feared trapped after a four-storey building collapsed in northeast Delhi's Mustafabad area in the early hours of Saturday.

 

The incident was reported at 3:02 am. Police said that 14 of the suspected 22 people have been rescued so far and were shifted to the GTB Hospital. Four people were declared dead upon arrival.

 

Upon receiving information about the building collapse at Dayalpur police station, a police team rushed to Gali No. 1, Shakti Vihar, where the four-storey building was located.

 

Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and firefighters, too have rushed to the spot. Police are probing the cause of the collapse.

 

Last week, two people were killed and three injured in similar incidents in the Delhi-NCR region. An under-construction wall on the sixth floor of a building in Madhu Vihar killed a 67-year-old man. A wall collapse newly-constructed balcony in Karol Bagh area resulted in the death of a 13-year-old boy.

 

(To be updated)

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