The death toll in the Chawri Bazar building collapse in Old Delhi rose to three on Saturday after rescue workers recovered the body of another worker from the debris, Delhi Police said. The newly recovered deceased was identified as Pankaj Sharma, 40, a resident of Hanuman Nagar village in Bihar's Khagaria district.

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With this recovery, five people have so far been accounted for from the collapse site — three who died and two who were injured. The other two deceased were earlier identified as Kishori, 40, and Sanjeet, 45. Police said both injured persons have received medical treatment and are now stable, and that rescue operations were still underway at the site on Saturday.

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What happened on November 5

The three-storey under-construction building collapsed at around 10:30 am on Thursday, November 5, at Gali Sheesh Mahal, Gali Shehatara, near Ajmeri Gate in Old Delhi's Chawri Bazar area, as Awaaz Punjab reported the same day. Police had said the construction was unauthorised and an FIR was registered against those responsible.

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On November 6, Delhi Police arrested three contractors — Siraj, Tajuddin and Furkan, all residents of Sirohi village in Faridabad district's Dauj tehsil — in a case registered under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which covers culpable homicide not amounting to murder, as Awaaz Punjab reported. The investigation into the cause of the collapse and the responsibility of those involved is continuing, police said.

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