An infant among five members of a family and a dog were rescued after a staircase collapsed inside a house in north Delhi’s Subzi Mandi area on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The incident was reported around 1:30 PM from a house at Tilak Chowk in the Roop Nagar area.
According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call regarding a house collapse was received, following which multiple teams were rushed to the spot.
During the rescue operation, officials found that the staircase on the first floor had collapsed, trapping several people on the second floor.
Fire officials said a total of five people and a dog were rescued safely from the building.
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The rescued have been identified as Mansi (45), her daughter, Anjali (24), Kavita, who is specially abled, her daughter Payal (21), and Niru, a five-month-old infant.
No casualties were reported in the incident. The cause of the collapse is yet to be ascertained, officials said.
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