A four-story residential building collapsed unexpectedly in northeast Delhi’s congested Mustafabad neighborhood, claiming the lives of three individuals, including a pregnant woman, and injuring eight others. Emergency teams comprising the National Disaster Response Force, Delhi Fire Services, and local police launched a round-the-clock rescue operation to extract residents trapped beneath heavy concrete rubble.
Initial structural assessments indicated that unauthorized vertical construction and poor drainage foundations severely weakened the building’s load-bearing columns during recent seasonal monsoon rains. Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials confirmed that the property had received prior structural hazard notices, prompting the immediate suspension of two municipal engineers for dereliction of duty.
Delhi government officials announced ex-gratia compensation of ₹10 lakh for the kin of the deceased and ₹2 lakh for the injured, directing civic agencies to conduct immediate structural stability audits of adjoining residential buildings. The district administration initiated criminal negligence inquiries against the building owner, who absconded following the catastrophe.
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