The four-storey building collapse in East Delhi has claimed 66 lives and left 130 injured in one of the worst such disasters in the capital, as massive rescue operations were on Tuesday on to pull out those trapped under the debris.

"Sixty-six people have died and about 130 are injured and admitted to various hospitals of the capital with a major chunk being at the LNJP," Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia said. Forty one bodies have been taken to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), 16 to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, six to Hedgewar Hospital and three to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.