At least six people were killed and 10 were injured when a four-storey commercial building collapsed in South Delhi on May 30, 2026, according to the Hindustan Times. The collapse occurred on Western Marg in the Saidul Ajaib area, close to Saket metro station, on Saturday evening.
Emergency crews worked overnight to find and remove people trapped under the debris. The operation brought together the National Disaster Response Force, Delhi Fire Services, Delhi Police, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Civil Defence and the CATS Ambulance Service. Responders used heavy equipment, hydraulic cutters, cameras designed to locate victims and sniffer dogs during the search.
Delhi Fire Services received the alert at 7:44 p.m., the report said. By about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, nine people had been removed from the wreckage. Eight were taken for treatment and one person, identified in the report as Ravi, was declared dead on arrival. The later reported toll was at least six dead and 10 injured.
All of the injured were taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre. A senior police officer said two patients were being treated in intensive care, three had been moved to a ward and three others had been discharged. The report did not provide a more detailed condition update for the remaining injured people.
The building stood in a densely occupied locality that includes paying-guest accommodation, coaching centres and student dining facilities. Students gathered in surrounding lanes after the collapse, with some trying to locate friends who had been inside a mess in the building. Footage attributed to a bystander showed the structure falling and a large cloud of dust spreading across the area.
Police said the rescue would continue until everyone believed to be missing had been accounted for. The cause had not been established in the information available after the overnight operation. Authorities had therefore not publicly assigned responsibility or identified a structural failure behind the collapse.
The report did not state how many people were believed to have been in the building when it fell or give a confirmed number still missing. It likewise did not announce a deadline for the search. The overnight work and use of specialised locating equipment indicated that responders were still treating the debris as a potential rescue site while casualty information was being updated.
The casualty figures and operational details reflect the status reported after the May 30 incident and could have changed as the search progressed. The source described the effort as an active rescue rather than a completed recovery operation. Any later determination about the building's condition, ownership or compliance would require evidence beyond the account available at that stage.
