Overview

• Rescuers responded after a residential building in the Ranipura–Jawahar Marg/Central Kotwali area collapsed around 9 p.m. during heavy rain.
• District Collector Shivam Verma said 13 people were inside at the time, with 10 pulled out alive and taken to MY Hospital and 2–3 still unaccounted for.
• Police, the fire brigade, municipal teams and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force are conducting search-and-rescue operations.
• Reports differ on the structure’s size and occupancy, with accounts describing it as three to five storeys and housing multiple families.
• Urban development minister Kailash Vijayvargiya cited illegally developed, congested surroundings and suspected basement waterlogging as contributing risks.