Three hurt in Kashmere Gate building collapse
Deputy commissioner of police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said they received a PCR call regarding the building collapse at Nicholson Road in Kashmere Gate area.
Three persons sustained grievous injuries and several others received minor injuries when an under-construction multi-storey building collapsed near Kashmere Gate area on Monday evening, officials said.
Deputy commissioner of police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said they received a PCR call regarding the building collapse at Nicholson Road in Kashmere Gate area.
“The local police, fire department and DDMA (Delhi Disaster Management Authority) immediately reached the spot and the rescue operation is still underway. No casualty has been reported. So far eight persons – all workers on the site – have been rescued. But the locals had rescued at least 25-30 trapped persons from the collapsed site before we could have reached the place of occurrence,” he said.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was also called for assistance, along with sniffer dogs, to search for people trapped under the debris, officials said.
The DCP said that three of the rescued persons have sustained major injuries, including Dilip (22), resident of Chabi Ganj; Mohammad Musaib (35), a resident of Gali Kalyanpura, Turkman Gate; and Mohammad Shami (42), a resident of Gali Madarse Waali, Jama Masjid. “While Dilip has been admitted in AAA Hospital, the two others are under doctors’ observation in Sushrut Hospital,” he said.
Kalsi further said that a case will be lodged against the builder once the rescue operation is finished.
The fire department officials also said that search and rescue operations with the help of bulldozers and sniffer dogs will continue till late in the night. “After receiving a call in this connection, three fire tenders were sent to the spot. It was a four-storey building and the bulldozers had to struggle to enter the congested lanes in the locality,” a senior fire department official said, asking not to be named.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led municipal corporations of conniving with corrupt builders. “We will take the BJP’s game of corruption in the MCDs before the public through a press conference on Tuesday,” said senior AAP leader Durgesh Pathak
