A woman and her son died while two others were critically injured after a wall collapsed on them in North Delhi’s Civil Lines, near the Lieutenant Governor’s house, following heavy rain on Tuesday morning.
According to the police, the deceased were identified as Meera (40) and her son Ganpat (17).
Meera’s elder son, Dashrath (19), and another man identified as Nanhe (35) were critically injured and are undergoing treatment at a city hospital.
All of them hail from Madhya Pradesh. They were working as labourers at the construction site in Sehgal Colony, police said.
Meera and her sons were inside a makeshift hut at the construction site, and Nanhe was sitting nearby, when a nearly 15-foot wall of the under-construction residential building fell on them, officers said.
“We received a call regarding a building collapse at 9.50 am. The caller said a collapse had taken place at House No. 1, Sehgal Colony, Civil Lines, near the L-G House, and that people were trapped. Several teams from police, fire, and disaster management reached the location, and the people were pulled out,” said a senior police officer.
A case of causing death due to negligence has been registered at the Civil Lines police station. Police said, prima facie, it has come to light that the construction was being carried out without the necessary approvals. Police said they are looking into the documents.
Severe traffic snarls and widespread waterlogging disrupted movement across Delhi on Tuesday after heavy rains lashed the city, forcing commuters to wade through deluged roads and streets.
Visuals from various parts of the city showed serpentine queues of vehicles at gridlocked intersections. In many areas, the water was at knee-level, partially submerging cars and two-wheelers alike.
