A four-storey residential building collapsed around 7:05 AM on July 12, 2025, in Delhi’s Welcome area, shattering the morning’s serenity and injuring eight people—including a 14-month-old child—while killing two others.
Fifty-year-old Matloob owned the building and lived there with his family of ten
Rescue workers found Matloob and his wife Rabia (46) dead beneath the debris. The collapse injured their sons Parvez (32) and Naved (19), daughter-in-law Siza (21), and infant grandson Ahmad. The impact also severely damaged the adjacent building, injuring neighbors Govind (60), Ravi Kashyap (27), Deepa (56), and Jyoti (27). Emergency teams rushed all of the injured to nearby hospitals for treatment.
The Collapse with Immediate Response
The one who have eyewitness this incident says “I was resting when i heard a loud deafening sound but Dust have engulfed everything”. People out there were screaming and running (Asma),a local resident. Few more neighbour Anees Ahmad Ansari also described that how that debris have crashed into their home also causing major injuries and blackout for a moment.
Emergency services have responded
Emergency services, including seven fire tenders, NDRF, Delhi Police, and civil defence, launched a rescue operation. while morning walkers acted as first responders, pulling survivors from the rubble before officials arrived.
Structural Concerns and Investigation
The cause of the collapse remains under investigation. Officials suspect that structural instability—possibly aggravated by monsoon moisture or unauthorized construction—caused the collapse. The building’s ground and first floors were reportedly unoccupied, raising questions towards its maintenance and status.
This incident follows with another collapse
A day earlier, a three-storey building collapsed in North Delhi’s Bara Hindu Rao area, killing one person and injuring several others. Authorities had already declared the structure unsafe, and they suspect nearby metro tunneling weakened its stability.
Political and Civic Reactions for incident
MP Manoj Tiwari have expressed his grief and concern and talk about the challenges that were posed by the area’s narrow lane under which some were just 2-3 feet wide. He urged to all the residents to stay away from the site until the operation get concluded and also emphasized for the need of stricter enforcement for the building codes.
A Wake-Up Call for Urban Safety
The Welcome area collapse is more than a tragic event but it’s also a stark reminder for Delhi’s fragile urban infrastructure. Delhi as a city which continues to expand with also aging building, congested neighbourhood impose these growing risks. Experts have called for community engagement and proactive governance to prevent from such disasters.
For now on the dust have been settled but the echoes of that morning is still linger. In the silence that follows, Delhi must listen to what its walls are trying to say.
