Delhi building collapse: 5 killed, government orders magisterial probe
A magisterial probe has been ordered into matter and the DM of area will lead investigation, said Delhi's PWD Minister Satyendra Jain.
Delhi's PWD Minister Satyendra Jain and AAP MLA Jarnail Singh on Sunday inspected the site of Vishnu Garden where a four-storey building collapsed on Saturday night killing five people.
Jain said that a magisterial probe has been ordered into matter and the DM of area will lead investigation. "A report will be submitted to the Delhi Government within seven days," added Jain.
Jain also announced compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the family of each deceased and Rs 50 thousands to injured.
About twelve people were rescued from under the debris of the building, police said. Ten persons sustained serious injuries and they were rushed to nearby hospitals," Dipendra Pathak, Joint Commissioner of Police, West Delhi Range, told PTI.
Police confirmed that the two who died were women, and added that the body of one more woman was lying under the roof of the building. Rescuers were trying to take her body out.
Eight fire tenders, teams of National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), local police and officials from district administration are carrying out rescue operations at the site of the building collapse at C Block near Masjid Khayala area.
A senior official of Fire Department said "we received a call about the building collapse at 9.07 pm and immediately eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot to rescue the affected people. It is a four-storey building and many people were feared trapped."
DCP of West Delhi Pushpendra Kumar said NDRF, local police and civil administration were carrying out rescue operations.
"2 NDRF teams from Ghaziabad, with about 30 men in each, have been rushed to the spot," a senior NDRF official said.
Delhi Fire Department Chief A K Sharma said all concerned agencies are working together to rescue those trapped under the debris. He said that the narrow passage leading to the collapsed building made it difficult for rescue teams to take their equipment to the site.
An official said that the building caved in as digging was going on at an adjacent plot for construction of a new structure. A large number of crowd that gathered at the spot hampered rescue operations, officials said.