The incident comes days after a UPSC aspirant was electrocuted in Patel Nagar.
New Delhi:
Three college students, who have been trapped for over 4 hours after water all of a sudden entered a basement at a well-liked teaching centre in West Delhi, have died, police stated.
Visuals from Rajendra Nagar confirmed the basement of Rau’s IAS Examine Circle fully flooded on Saturday. Fireplace brigade officers stated they acquired a name about college students being caught within the basement at 7.19 pm on Saturday and 5 hearth engines have been dispatched to help in rescue operations.
The our bodies of two feminine college students have been pulled out hours after the rescue operation started. The physique of the third pupil, a male, was recovered later into the evening.
“The our bodies have been despatched to the hospital for additional authorized motion. Rescue operations are nonetheless underway. The water is being pumped out. There’s nonetheless about 7 ft of water within the basement… I request the coed group to not come right here and hamper the rescue providers. We share their ache however coming right here to the spot just isn’t the answer. It can hamper the rescue providers,” Deputy Commissioner Of Police (Central Delhi) M Harshavardhan stated.
Delhi Fireplace chief Atul Garg stated that rescue operations are nonetheless on to search out anybody else suspected to be trapped within the basement. Earlier, he stated stories urged that solely 3 college students have been trapped whereas 30 others had escaped the flooded basement.
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The incident comes days after a UPSC aspirant was electrocuted whereas attempting to cross a waterlogged road in Patel Nagar, which can be in West Delhi.
In a submit on X, Delhi Public Works Division Minister Atishi stated the basement acquired flooded after heavy rain and the native AAP MLA, Durgesh Pathak has reached the teaching centre, and so has the mayor, Shelly Oberoi.
“There’s information of an accident as a consequence of heavy rain in Delhi within the night. There’s information of water flooding the basement of a training institute in Rajendra Nagar. The Delhi Fireplace Division and NDRF are on the spot. The Delhi Mayor and native MLA are additionally there. I’m taking updates of the incident each minute,” she wrote in Hindi.
The minister, who stated within the submit that anybody discovered responsible wouldn’t be spared, has additionally written to the Delhi chief secretary and requested him to make sure a magisterial inquiry is initiated instantly. She has sought a report inside 24 hours.
‘Avoidable Tragedy’
Hitting out on the AAP authorities, Bansuri Swaraj, BJP MP from the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, who additionally reached the teaching centre, stated the tragedy may have been prevented.
“Devoted staff from the BJP repeatedly requested Durgesh Pathak to make sure that the sewers on this space are cleaned and de-silted. If that had been performed, this tragedy wouldn’t have occurred. You may see there’s 2-3 foot of water on the highway, which inundated the basement. Persons are saying divers needed to go in, so you may think about how dangerous the scenario is. The AAP authorities, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and MLA Durgesh Pathak are chargeable for the tragedy and the demise,” she stated.
Mr Pathak stated a drain or sewer appeared to have exploded, resulting in the flooding. On the BJP’s allegations, he stated the occasion’s councillors have been in energy within the Municipal Company of Delhi for 15 years however didn’t get drains constructed. “This isn’t the time for politics. The main target now’s on saving the scholars,” the MLA stated.
