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In Short: Rescue teams are working to save survivors after a residential building collapsed in Delhi, killing seven people and trapping dozens more.
Soni Yuvraj, a second-year B.Com student at Delhi University’s Motilal Nehru College (Evening), was among the seven who died. He had moved to Delhi a year ago to pursue his dream of becoming a chartered accountant. "Even after finding his body, we’ve still not worked up the courage to tell him the truth," said a family member, expressing their grief.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has suspended South Zone Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kumar and four engineers following the building collapse. The Delhi High Court has indicated that responsibility could extend beyond the PG owner to Delhi University and civic authorities, as it flagged the "absolutely inadequate" number of hostels available to students.
The incident has raised concerns about the safety of PG accommodations in Delhi, with many students and residents trapped in the rubble. The area around the site of the collapse is teeming with rescue workers in bright orange uniforms, and hospital officials are not disclosing the identities of the casualties.
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- He had last been home for Raksha Bandhan, returning to Delhi on August 31.
- Rescue teams are searching the rubble of the collapsed building, which housed mostly students, near a Delhi University campus in Satya Niketan on Sunday.
- “The most important thing for us is to save the lives of these students. Rescue operations will carry on,” Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta told local news outlets.
- At least five killed in New Delhi building collapse A multistorey building in the Indian capital, New Delhi, has collapsed, killing at least six people and trapping dozens of others.
- Rescuers are digging through the rubble a day after a residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, Delhi, killing at least seven people.
- Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said "accumulation of water, combined with ongoing repair work in the basement" of the building, Hostel Daze, caused the collapse.
- A majority of the residents were students and many were thought to be in their rooms at the time of the collapse as there were no lessons on Sunday.
- Hospital officials are not saying whether the casualties include students, local residents or labourers who were working in the basement.