A 60-year-old man died while three others were injured when a two-storey building collapsed in northeast Delhi’s Nand Nagri area on Saturday.
The deceased has been identified as Kanti Lal while the injured have been identified as Dhani Ram (65), his wife Anaro Devi (65) and Rajkumar (64).
Following the incident, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter to say he was monitoring the situation.
“This accident of house collapse is very sad. All possible help is being provided for relief and rescue. I am continuously monitoring the incident through the district administration,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.
According to Atul Garg, the Director of Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call was received around 1.30 PM about the house collapse in an auto market in Nand Nagri, following which six fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
“The building which collapsed had shops on the ground floor. One person was taken out by the public and another was rescued by Delhi Fire Services officials,” said Garg.
The police said the house was owned by Dhani Ram, who was living there with his family.
“The injured, Dhani Ram, his wife Anaro Devi and Rajkumar have been shifted to GTB hospital. One Kanti Lal was found from the debris and shifted to hospital where he was declared brought dead. Legal action into the incident is being initiated accordingly,” said the senior police official.
Chairman of the Standing Commitee of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation Beer Singh Panwar said he and other senior officials of the EDMC visited the site of the mishap and tried to get the rescue work done.
“No loss of life has taken place due to the incident, only three persons were injured whom I visited at GTB Hospital too,” he said.
Panwar said, the building was a little over 10 years old, and it seems, the landlord had “tried to do some extra construction after a crack had occurred on the ground floor level”.
Search operation was going on till the filing of the news.