At least 11 people, including three children, died on Saturday (19.04.2025) in her New Delhi Indiawhen inhabited building It collapsed in a suburb of the Indian capital, according to media information and authorities.
The collapse of the building took place in a northeast suburb in New Delhi, India, where mainly immigrants live from other areas of the vast country and where the checks are rare. Rescue crews were looking for debris all day yesterday.
Eleven people came out alive from the debris from rescue workshops, but they were “found dead,” the NDTV television network said yesterday.
“All” the rescuers were rushed to a nearby hospital, where five of them continued to be “hospitalized” at the end of the day while the other six were discharged, according to the same source.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Monti commented through X that “the loss of human lives”.
Falling building, land in a few seconds, who is responsible for 11 deaths?#Mustafabad | #BuildingCollapse | #Delhi pic.twitter.com/90FR25XXfw
— NDTV India (@ndtvindia) April 19, 2025
President Droupadi Mourmou, whose official home is 20 kilometers from the scene of the disaster, also described the death of so many people, including women and children. “
The Hindu Hindu Nationalist Party of Federal Prime Minister Monti recently won the election in the state’s state, for the first time in almost thirty years.
#WATCH | A building collapsed in the Mustafabad area of Delhi, several feared trapped. NDRF and Police teams at the spot. Rescue operations underway
More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/Nakb5gUMf6
– years (@ani) April 19, 2025
Kapil Missra, a Minister in Delhi, attributed the “collapse of arbitrary buildings” to “corruption” to a municipal body directed by an opposing party.
“It is necessary to investigate all these buildings that have been erected illegally and to take strict measures,” he added.
The four -storey building in Mustafabad collapsed like a leaf. The pains are stuck under the debris. After a lot of effort, only five corpses were found.#Mustafabad #mustafabadbuilding pic.twitter.com/tVx4VDBmpb
— Pathan Yusuf (@PathanLalkhan) April 19, 2025
According to Indian media, the four -storey building “collapsed like a card tower”. Such arbitrary constructions are often found in Indian cities.
They are most often housed by the poorest internal immigrants who go to cities to find a job and are often forced to live in dangerous conditions.
In most of the major urban centers of the most populous country throughout the world, India – in New Delhi, in Mumbai, in Calcutta … – cases of deadly building collapses have been recorded in recent years.