A four-storey building collapsed in Central Delhi's Sadar Bazaar area on Friday evening, police said. However, no casualties or injuries were reported in the mishap.
A senior official from the Delhi Fire Service said,"We received a phone call regarding building collapse in Paan Mandi area of Sadar near New Delhi Railway Station at around 5.20 p.m. Eight fire tenders were pressed into service."
According to police, there were no reports of casualties yet, as people ran out of the building when a part of it initially fell
A senior police officer said, "The ground floor of the building had a couple of shops and the other floors were used to store merchandise."
This is the second such incident of collapse in the national capital. Earlier in the day, a huge mound of a garbage dump collapsed in East Delhi's Ghazipur landfill site, killing two, while five others have been rescued by the locals.