Five people sustained injuries after a ground-floor shed at an under-construction house collapsed in central Delhi’s Paharganj area on Sunday evening.
According to the Delhi Fire Services, a distress call regarding the structural mishap was received at 4:40 pm, prompting emergency responders to rush to the site and shift the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Confirming the rescue operation, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Rohit Rajbir Singh stated that no fatalities have been reported so far and the injured are receiving medical care.
Sunday’s incident adds to a troubling series of structural collapses across the national capital in recent months. Earlier in November, seven people lost their lives when a three-storey building gave way in Chawri Bazar.
In October alone, two separate tragedies struck northeast Delhi: a 60-year-old man and his son died under an under-construction structure in Harsh Vihar on October 25, while four people—including a pregnant woman—were killed during a demolition-linked collapse of a five-storey building in Seemapuri on October 7.
Earlier this year, basement repair work triggered the collapse of a five-storey boys’ PG accommodation in Satya Niketan on September 6, claiming seven lives, following a May 30 commercial building collapse in Saidulajab that killed six people.
The string of mishaps echoes a July 2025 tragedy in northeast Delhi’s Welcome area that wiped out six members of a single family, underscoring persistent safety concerns at construction and renovation sites.