People used their bare hands to rescue those trapped in the rubble At least 32 people have been killed by the collapse of a multi-storey building in a busy Delhi neighbourhood, officials say.
At least 60 people were injured when the structure collapsed, in an eastern district of the city.
Emergency workers are struggling to reach those trapped in the rubble.
Reports said that ambulances were having difficulty reaching the site of the accident, in the narrow lanes of the Lalita Park residential area.
"Thirty-two people have been killed in the incident," Delhi's Health Minister Kiran Walia told the Press Trust of India news agency (PTI).
The city's finance minister reportedly told PTI that the foundations of the building may have been weakened by flooding during monsoon rains.
Many locals tried to lift pieces of the collapsed structure - which residents said was very old and occupied by labourers - themselves.
"There is no bulldozer, no crane, there is nothing, whatever is being done is done by residents here," Sujoy, a resident of Lalita Park told local television network ANI.
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