A girl died after drowning when she fell right into a drain after the collapse of an iron bridge in north Delhi’s Roop Nagar on Tuesday morning.
Rescue groups from the Boat Membership are conducting an operation to verify if extra individuals might have fallen into the drain after the bridge gave method, HT has learnt.
The girl, a beggar aged round 50, died after the construction collapsed and she or he fell into the drain under, an official from the Delhi Fireplace Service (DFS) instructed information company PTI.
Rescue groups on the web site later recovered her physique. She was declared useless on the spot, the officer mentioned.
Authorities have sealed off the world to keep away from additional incidents. Officers mentioned the reason for the collapse will not be but recognized and an in depth inspection shall be carried out.
Extra particulars are awaited into the incident.
Incident comes after sequence of pit-related deaths
This incident comes after a sequence of pit-related deaths reported throughout the nationwide capital this 12 months, indicating an absence of primary security measures put in place beneath contract guidelines and visitors police situations for street work in a number of areas.
Kamal Dhyani, a 25-year-old financial institution telecaller, died in west Delhi’s Janakpuri within the early hours of February 5, reportedly after falling right into a 4-5-metre-deep pit that had been left open and with out security cowl on a poorly lit street. Delhi Police has arrested a contractor who had dug the pit as a part of a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) undertaking in Janakpuri.
Only some days after the Janakpuri incident, a 30-year-old labourer died after falling into an open manhole maintained by the Delhi Improvement Authority (DDA) within the Begumpur space of Delhi’s Rohini.
