Delhi rain: 3 killed after wall of under-construction building collapses
Three people were killed when a wall collapsed at an under-construction basement site of a hotel, following heavy rainfall, at Arakashan Road in Paharganj on Saturday evening.
Police said the incident was reported via a PCR call at 6.20 pm. Another person was injured in the incident, they said.
When they reached the site, police and rescue teams discovered that the wall had given way as the structure had weakened due to ongoing construction activities, and was worsened by the rain.
The deceased have been identified as Prabhu, 65, the contractor overseeing the construction; Niranjan, 40, a construction worker; and Roshan, 35, another worker at the site. Prabhu was reportedly leading the basement construction project, with Niranjan and Roshan working under him.
Chuttan, 35, sustained injuries and has been admitted to a hospital for treatment, said police. Police and emergency services are conducting further rescue operations on site.
The incident comes barely a month after a building in Northeast Delhi's Dayalpur collapsed following a dust storm in the early hours of April 19. The collapse killed 11 people, of whom eight were members of the family of a 2020 Northeast Delhi riots victim.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had then said that the building was around 20 years old and was an unauthorised construction. Police sources had said some shops were being constructed on the ground floor, and the work underway likely caused the structure to weaken.
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had then ordered a probe into the incident, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences to those who lost their loved ones and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the next of kin of each deceased. The injured would be given Rs 50,000 each, he had said in a post on X.
President Droupadi Murmu had also expressed her condolences to all the affected families.
Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra and local MLA Mohan Singh Bisht had also visited the site. 'All these colonies are unauthorised. We will act against the MCD officials who cleared these houses,' Mishra had said.
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