Labourer dies in under-construction Delhi building

New Delhi: A 25-year-old labourer has died under mysterious circumstances in west Delhi's Vikaspuri, police said on Thursday.

The deceased has been identified as Uma Shankar Jha, a resident of Nihal Vihar, they said.

According to police, Jitender Bansal (25), who works as a guard in Vikaspuri D-Block, said that a finishing work was going on in an under-construction building.

On Wednesday, at around 4 pm, Bansal heard a noise and when he went inside the building, he saw Jha lying near the stairs, police said. Bansal, with the help of a passerby, took him to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he succumbed, police said.