India, Jan. 29 -- Dinesh Gupta, 55, was at home on Monday evening when he heard a noise that shook the ground beneath him -- a rumble, and then a collapse so loud that it took him a few minutes to gather himself. The building next to his house in Kaushik Enclave, Burari, had collapsed like a pack of cards. "No one had the time to escape... People were stuck under debris. I live in the adjoining building and the debris had reached us too. At first, we couldn't hear anyone cry or scream because they were all stuck under debris," said Gupta.

Since Monday evening, multiple teams of Delhi Fire Service (DFS), NDRF and the Delhi Police have doing a rescue operation in Burari, where a four-storey under construction building collapsed. Five peopl...