NEW DELHI, Apr 20 (NNN-PTI) – At least 11 people were killed and 11 others injured yesterday, after a multi-storey residential building collapsed, in the Indian national capital territory of Delhi, police said.
The building collapsed in Mustafabad area of North East Delhi district, in the early hours of yesterday.
Following the building collapse, teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire services, police and locals, carried out rescue efforts at the spot, to pull out survivors and the dead from the debris.
A closed-circuit television camera footage revealed that, the building collapsed at 2:39 a.m. (local time) yesterday.
Reports said, 22 occupants who were asleep inside the building at that time, got trapped, following its collapse.
Officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi told local media, the building was around 20 years old.
The cause of the building collapse is being ascertained.– NNN-PTI
