Five people, including three children, died and four others were injured Saturday after a wall collapsed in Karawal Nagar of northeast Delhi, Indo-Asian News Service reported.

The victims, belonging to a family, were sitting beside the wall of a school, which was about 2.5 meters high and still under construction, when it suddenly collapsed, the police said.

The cause of the collapse is still under construction and the police have come to the contractor, the source added.

The injured have been sent to hospital and rescue work continued in a bid to assure no one was buried under the ruins, the report said.

Source: Xinhua