5-storey building collapse kills 40-year-old
Paras Singh & Pankhuri Yadav
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New Delhi:
TNN
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A 40-year-old woman died and her teenage daughter was critically injured after the five-storeyed building they had been living in since the past 15 years collapsed on Friday evening. The incident took place in north Delhi's Azad Market.Residents said, apart from the mother-daughter duo, no one else was present when the building collapsed.
The woman, Jimla, was a widow and lived with her children Paras (23) and Komal (18). Her son had gone to work and was informed about the incident by a neighbour.
“I saw a cloud of dust and rushed out to see the building leaning against its neighbouring one. Soon, it collapsed like a pack of cards,“ said Vijay Kumar, a neighbour.
“Our house also has cracks now,“ said Mir Chand, another neighbour.
Paras, an accountant with a firm in Gurgaon, told TOI that he had planned to shift to a place closer to his office in the next two months.“This rented house was in a bad shape and I was worried about our safety and security .So, I started looking for another house to shift at the earliest,“ he said.
The fire department rushed 10 fire tenders after getting a distress call. There were three families living in the building. The man who stayed alone on the second floor was away at work, while the one on the fourth floor was out of the city for Chhath Puja.
North Corporation may or Sanjiv Nayyar, who visited the area, said, “Though the building was old, it had not been declared dangerous. No new construction was taking place in it. I have ordered officials to survey the buildings in the area,“ he said.
The National Disaster Response Force was also called in and rescue operations were underway till late at night.
The woman, Jimla, was a widow and lived with her children Paras (23) and Komal (18). Her son had gone to work and was informed about the incident by a neighbour.
“I saw a cloud of dust and rushed out to see the building leaning against its neighbouring one. Soon, it collapsed like a pack of cards,“ said Vijay Kumar, a neighbour.
“Our house also has cracks now,“ said Mir Chand, another neighbour.
Paras, an accountant with a firm in Gurgaon, told TOI that he had planned to shift to a place closer to his office in the next two months.“This rented house was in a bad shape and I was worried about our safety and security .So, I started looking for another house to shift at the earliest,“ he said.
The fire department rushed 10 fire tenders after getting a distress call. There were three families living in the building. The man who stayed alone on the second floor was away at work, while the one on the fourth floor was out of the city for Chhath Puja.
North Corporation may or Sanjiv Nayyar, who visited the area, said, “Though the building was old, it had not been declared dangerous. No new construction was taking place in it. I have ordered officials to survey the buildings in the area,“ he said.
The National Disaster Response Force was also called in and rescue operations were underway till late at night.
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