Eight people injured after house collapses in West Delhi due to Cylinder explosion

 Eight people were injured on Monday morning when a house collapsed in west Delhi's Nangloi area following an LPG cylinder blast, officials said. Delhi Fire Service said it was informed about house collapse around 5.15 am.

Eight people were rescued by fire personnel and rushed to a hospital with help of public and police, a DFS official said. In a separate incident, a house collapsed in west Delhi's Tagore Garden area around 11.30 pm on Sunday. Fire officials said house was situated opposite a metro pillar in Tagore Garden and three fire tenders were rushed to spot.

building collapsed while digging was underway at an jacent plot. casualty has been reported in incident, y said. ditional Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) Akshat Kaushal said, "Teams of police, fire and NDRF are at site. rescue operation is going on since last night. So far, causality has been reported. Necessary legal action is being initiated."

Taking to Twitter, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said government was in constant contact with rescue teams. "Both incidents are tragic. district ministrations of both areas are engd in relief and rescue operations. We are in constant contact with rescue teams. I pray for everyone's well being," he tweeted in Hindi.