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Building Collapse in Delhi Kills Pregnant Woman, Two Children
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In Short: A four-storey building in Seemapuri, Delhi, collapsed on Wednesday, killing three people including a pregnant woman and two children.
A four-storey building in Seemapuri, Delhi, collapsed on Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of three people, including a pregnant woman and two children, and injuring eight others.
The collapse occurred around 3:10 pm, with the Delhi Fire Services receiving a call around 3:30 pm.
According to officials, the building was approximately 225 square feet in size and had developed cracks following tremors caused by an earthquake in Uttarakhand on Tuesday evening.
The deceased included Gulafsa, a 21-year-old woman who was four months pregnant, and two children, one of whom was 12 years old and the other around one-and-a-half years old.
Rescue operations were immediately launched, with teams from the Delhi Police, Delhi Disaster Management Authority, National Disaster Response Force, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) participating.
Gulafsa was taking a shower on the second floor when the building collapsed, while her four-year-old daughter Zoya was walking with her when the incident occurred.
Rescue workers managed to reach Gulafsa after calculating the height of the second floor and cutting through debris, but she was unresponsive at the time.
Reshma, Gulafsa's sister, rushed to the site and hospitals in search of her loved ones.
The incident has raised concerns over the structural safety of residential buildings in densely populated urban areas.
The building was reportedly 20 to 25 years old and stood on a plot owned by the DUSIB.
While the official cause of the collapse is not yet known, authorities suspect that cracks in the structure due to the earthquake may have contributed to the disaster.
Background
A four-storey building in Seemapuri, Delhi, collapsed on Wednesday, killing three people including a pregnant woman and two children.
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What's confirmed
- Three people, including a child and a pregnant woman, were killed and eight injured after a building collapsed in Delhi’s Seemapuri on Wednesday.
- It said the building was around 20-25 years old and occupied.
- The four-storey building in northeast Delhi's Seemapuri collapsed on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three people, including Gulafsa and a one-year-old toddler, and injuring eight, officials said.
- Gulafsa, 21, Gudiya at home, was taking a shower on the second floor when the building collapsed, trapping her beneath debris, her relatives told PTI.
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- According to police, the four-storey building was constructed on a plot measuring approximately 225 square feet.
- Teams from the Delhi Police, Delhi Disaster Management Authority, National Disaster Response Force, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) joined the search-and-rescue operation.
- "We saw a small child who was severely injured and his parents were extremely worried. We think few more children could be inside. We just hope they are also brought out safely," she said.
- Masoom said several children regularly played around the building and the family feared that more could be trapped under debris.
- The deceased include a girl aged around 12 years, whose identity is yet to be ascertained; Gulafsa, 21, who was approximately four months pregnant; and another child aged around one-and-a-half years, whose identity is yet to be established.
- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), however, said the collapsed structure was spread over around 22 square yards in the DUSIB area near Idgah Machhli Mandi.
What's still developing
- “The building measured 225 sq ft. Some people have been rescued and sent to hospitals, but we suspect that two to three people are still trapped under the debris. They are talking… rescue operation is underway,” DCP R P Meena said.
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- “She told him she was stuck under rocks. And she can’t breathe,” Reshma said.
- “My father has a junk shop on the ground floor, while my brother has another shop in a lane almost half a kilometre away. All of them were inside the house when it collapsed,” she said.