A four-storey residential building collapsed in north Delhi’s Shastri Nagar Monday morning. The police said that no one was residing in the building, so there was no loss of life or injury in the incident.
Locals said the incident took place early in the morning and the entire structure collapsed on the road.
Purported videos from the spot show the building falling down as locals walk by. The building is located between two other buildings. The adjacent buildings weren’t damaged. Officials suspect that the old structure collapsed because of its construction.
According to Sagar Singh Kalsi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North), at around 8:45 a.m. on Monday, a PCR call was received regarding the building collapse at Shastri Nagar, following which an Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) was dispatched to the spot.
The collapsed structure was a four-storey building owned by Balraj Arora. It had developed cracks in May 2022 and was thus vacated.
