At least eight persons, including one injured victim rescued late at night, were pulled out after a multi-storey building collapsed onto an adjacent tin-shed canteen on Saturday evening.
Rescue teams from the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), police
personnel and local residents continued search operations.
According to the DFS, information was received at around 8.30 pm regarding the collapse of an under- construction building with multiple floors, triggering a major emergency response.
Senior DFS officers reached the site to oversee rescue efforts.
Preliminary reports indicated that the ground-plus-three-storey structure, which was under construction on the third floor, collapsed onto an adjacent temporary tin-shed canteen. Several children were reportedly having dinner inside the canteen when the building came crashing down, trapping them beneath the rubble.
By 10.20 pm, three persons were rescued safely by members of the public and PCR personnel before the arrival of fire service teams. Subsequently, four more people were rescued by DFS personnel with assistance from the NDRF and shifted to a nearby hospital.
At around 10.45 pm, rescue teams pulled out another injured person from the debris and rushed the victim to hospital for treatment, taking the total number of rescued persons to eight.
Authorities said rescue operations were continuing late into the night to locate any remaining trapped persons. The exact number of people buried under the debris and the cause of the collapse were yet to be ascertained.
