No end to misery of building collapse victims

The building collapse in Delhi's Lakshmi Nagar area on Monday evening, that killed 66 people, has been the worst nightmare for the residents.

Shankari, a maid, is still hoping it is just a bad dream and she'll open her eyes to see her daughter Preeti by her side.

"My five-year-old daughter died, my brother in law pulled her out and took her to the hospital," she said.

Unfortunately, the nightmare is a reality for her and scores of others who lived in the building.
Joined in her grief by hundreds of other residents, Shankari is now waiting for news on the rest of her family.

"We can't find my brother and even my sister," Shankari said.

She same to Delhi as a child from Murshidabad in West Bengal, followed her mother and became a domestic help.

Like her, most of the residents of this building worked as domestic helps or daily wage workers, forced to settle for rooms here at Rs. 2000-3000 a month.
　
Mohd and Shakur lived on the terrace of the building with 11 others from Bihar, who worked as construction workers. Two are dead and seven missing.