NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old labourer died and another was injured after a wall collapsed on them in Sita Ram Bazar area of Central Delhi’s Chandni Mahal, police said on Monday. The victim, Dilip Yadav, was a native of Bihar and lived in north Delhi’s Wazirabad, they said.
Police said the incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. “Around 2.50 am, information was received at Chandni Mahal Police Station from LNJP hospital that two injured had been admitted to the hospital consequent to an incident of a wall collapse in the area of Sita Ram Bazar. One of them, Dilip Yadav was declared brought dead while another labourer Chittan Mandal sustained injuries on his leg,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Sanjay Kumar Sain said.
Mandal is still under treatment at the hospital, he said. According to police, the incident occurred around 1.40 am when some labourers were demolishing a wall, which suddenly collapsed on them.
