New Delhi, July 13 -- The moment they heard that a building had collapsed in their area, several locals rushed to the site in Delhi's Welcome and hunkered down to clean the rubble with their hands in the hope of rescuing its occupants. But the damage was already done.
Matloob, 50, his wife Rabia, 46, and two sons - Javed, 23, and Abdulla, 15 - died in the incident. Zubia, 27, and her two-year-old daughter Fozia, also perished. "We all were removing rubble before the police arrived," said a neighbour of Matloob, the owner of the house.
Volunteers and neighbours worked side by side, offering water and comforting the family members who were waiting for news of their loved ones.
"It was a family of ten," said Dilshaad Ahmed, a relative, said...