Residents claimed that several complaints had been made against the building owners for not maintaining the structure. Moorthymore-inFive persons were injured when a 3-storey building collapsed in East Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar in the early hours of Sunday. Residents claimed that several complaints had been made against the building owners for not maintaining the old and dilapidated structure, but no action was taken. According to the Delhi Fire Services, the call was made to them around 1:30 a.m. Police and fire department teams rescued those trapped. There was one family trapped in the building, all of them are safely evacuated,” a senior police officer said later on Sunday morning.

Source: The Hindu July 02, 2017 04:30 UTC