With some body parts and remains yet to be identified, at least four deaths have been confirmed so far. A day after a five-storey building collapsed in New Seemapuri, police officials on Thursday said that a 28-hour-long search and rescue operation had ended on Thursday evening.
However, this will be confirmed once the investigation is concluded,” said a senior police officer who asked not to be named. The DNA examination will help ascertain whether the body parts belong to the same person or multiple people. This means the death toll could rise. “Prime facie, these two key factors appear to be the cause of the collapse.
Two children and a 21-year-old pregnant woman were initially confirmed dead. police revised the toll to four counting the confirmed deaths of three women and a child (aged around 3 or 4) While two more women’s bodies were recovered early Thursday. A case was registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s (BNS) sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 110 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) against unknown persons at the Seemapuri police station.
In a statement, deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) Rajendra Prasad Meena said they will be identified through DNA examination. Anwar, meanwhile, was not present in the building at the time of the collapse and is absconding, police said. A police officer aware of the matter said that five body parts had been recovered from the debris on Wednesday.
