Overview
- A commercial building next to a student-frequented canteen in the Saidulajab/Saket area collapsed, reducing the adjacent eatery to rubble and trapping people during the evening incident on Sunday.
- Canteen owner Parvati Ojha is reported to have escaped then returned to warn students and was pulled from the debris after an extended rescue but later died at hospital.
- Media and officials report differing casualty totals as rescue teams worked, with outlets citing between four and six confirmed deaths and several people taken to AIIMS and other hospitals.
- Rescue teams, including specialised emergency crews, carried out an overnight operation of roughly 16 hours to recover victims and the injured from the wreckage.
- Preliminary inquiries point to construction work on upper floors, municipal engineers have been suspended, police have registered an FIR and the incident is raising wider safety questions about unauthorised building activity in student districts.