LIVE Updates from Ghazipur landfill collapse
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LIVE Updates from Ghazipur landfill collapse

 A huge heap of garbage caved in at the Ghazipur landfill site. Rescue operations underway.

LIVE Updates from Ghazipur landfill collapse
  • Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, DM and MCD East Delhi Councillor Rajiv Verma reached the spot.  
  • The Delhi Traffic Police tweeted that the road leading from the Delhi-Noida-Delhi Expressway towards the landfill has been shut down.
  • Deputy CM Manish Sisodia headed towards Ghazipur landfill site.
  • NDRF team has reached the spot. Rescue operations are on.
  • 10 fire tenders have reached the spot.
  • Many people are supposed to be still trapped under the debris.
  • As per sources around 4 to 5 vehicles were swept into the canal.
  • Four people have been rescued from the water.
  • A woman  riding a scooty is one among the dead. She has been  identified as Rajkumari, a Ghazipur resident.
  • Two people have been reported dead. One man and one woman died after a huge heap of garbage caved in at the Ghazipur landfill site.
  • The incident reportedly happened around 2.30 pm, when the garbage heap collapsed in Ghazipur.

 

Here are live visuals from the spot: 

 

 

 

Local residents, speaks about the incident

 

EDMC councillor, Rajeev Verma speaks about the incident