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Delhi Building Collapse: Latest news, death toll, rescue operations, cause, and key updates on the tragic building collapse incident in Delhi. The main component of a recipe for catastrophe is frequently greed. This also applies to the Delhi building collapse that claimed at least six lives and injured numerous others.
The building was a run-down, roughly fifty-year-old edifice that had been destroyed by weather and negligence just a few months prior. There were a number of paying-guest hostels all around this flimsy, barely standing pile of bricks. It was a profitable prospect because of its close proximity to Delhi University, which is home to thousands of students from all over the nation. The building’s owner made the decision to make money off of this opportunity.
Rescue operations in under way after a building collapsed near Satya Niketan in South-West Delhi, in New Delhi on September 07, 2026. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Hari Ram Bansal, the owner, renovated the building over several months. The majority of the tenants who moved into the facility in August of this year were students.
However, construction work remained incomplete, and when the building collapsed, labourers were still working in the basement.
Among the eleven people rescued were two labourers, indicating that construction work had been underway. One labourer died in the incident.
“Labourers were working in the basement even during the rain. Waterlogging is common in the basements of buildings here, and they could also be trapped,” a local told the agency
Priyanka, who said she had been living in the area for 20 to 22 years, said PG owners convert their houses into hostels and live elsewhere.
“Buildings here are being constructed up to five or six floors. Many houses have been converted into boys’ PGs, with the owners shifting elsewhere. They simply name the properties as PGs, take the rent online, and leave the area without ever checking back,” she said.
Another local said that Bansal had moved to Gurugram 20 years ago
