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Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004

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Six dead in rain-related mishaps

By Our Staff Reporter

This here is the scene outside Patiala House Courts, where heavy rain uprooted a tree, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Sandeep Saxena

NEW DELHI, AUG. 24. The heavy downpour in the Capital over the past couple of days resulted in at least four incidents of wall and roof collapse in which four persons were killed and one was injured. Two persons also died from electrocution.

A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed when the roof of their house collapsed at Mansarovar Park in North-East Delhi in the early hours of today. According to the fire department, the incident occurred at Nathu Colony in School Block around 3-15 a.m. Sheela and her daughter Geetanjali died on the spot.

At Civil Lines in North Delhi, a 20-metre wall constructed by the Public Works Department in Kudsia Ghat collapsed around 4 p.m. Two persons, identified as Mukhtiyar Singh (25) and Kabul (20), died, while a 16-year-old Prashant was injured. He was admitted to Trauma Centre. The victims were living in shanties along the wall. A case of causing death due to negligence has been registered at Civil Lines police station and further investigations are on.

In a yet another incident, two elderly men were killed when they came in contact with a wet iron grill at a tea stall in Chandni Chowk today. The police said Ram Dass (65), a retired employee of erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board living in Dariba Kalan, and Om Prakash (55), working on a tea stall in Old Lajpat Rai Market, were having tea in the morning when they came in contact with a wet iron grill and were electrocuted. Chandni Chowk police are looking into the incident. At Prashant Vihar in North-West Delhi, the boundary wall of an ayurvedic hospital, Panchkarma, maintained by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, collapsed and cracks appeared in many of the hospital walls this morning. While none of the patients sustained injuries, they were taken to safer rooms in the building. In another incident, a dilapidated building collapsed at Turkman Gate in Central Delhi in the early hours of Tuesday. However, no one was injured.

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