15-Feet-Deep Pit Forms In A Road In Delhi's Trilokpuri Area-VISUALS

New Delhi: A 15-foot-deep pit was formed on a road in the Trilokpuri area of the national capital. According to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), MLA Rohit Kumar Mehraulia, the pit may have developed due to the heavy rainfall the city has experienced this year. "This incident happened around 9 pm...we informed the police, and they came here and placed barricades and stopped people from going there. This pit must have formed due to heavy rain this year," he said on Thursday.

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#WATCH | 15 feet deep pit formed in a road in Delhi's Trilokpuri area (19/09) pic.twitter.com/iD8Fto7bjc

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More details are awaited.In another news, four people died and 14 others sustained injuries when a five-storey building housing a slipper factory and residential accommodation for workers collapsed on Wednesday morning in a congested area in Bapa Nagar in central Delhi, police said. Rescuers faced a tough time as they reached the site after navigating through the very narrow lanes and 18 people were pulled out of the rubble during an eight-hour operation. Police said heavy machines like cranes could not reach the site. A case under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 290 (Negligent conduct with respect to pulling down, repairing or constructing buildings, etc) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered and further investigation is underway, the police said.The main cause of the incident is suspected to be the leakage in the building but it has to be further investigated, an officer said. The MCD, however, said the building had not been found to be under dangerous condition during the pre-monsoon survey. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) M. Harsha Vashan said that they received information at around 9 am about the incident. "It was found that a five-storey building (ground+four floors) had collapsed and people were trapped in the rubble. An adjacent building also suffered the damage," the officer said.(With agency inputs)