NEW DELHI, April 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people were killed and 11 others injured Saturday after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in the Indian national capital territory of Delhi, police said.

The building collapsed in Mustafabad area of North East Delhi district in the early hours of Saturday.

Following the building collapse, teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire services, police and locals carried out rescue efforts at the spot to pull out survivors and the dead from the debris.

A closed-circuit television camera footage revealed that the building collapsed at 2:39 a.m. (local time) on Saturday.

Reports said 22 occupants who were asleep at that time inside the building got trapped following its collapse.

Officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi told local media the building was around 20 years old.

The cause of the building collapse is being ascertained. Enditem

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