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Youth slips from stairs, dies

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Bangalore: A 22-year-old BBM student died after he slipped from the staircase in his house in Eshwari Layout here on Friday. The victim has been identified as V. Prajwal, a student of Williams College near J.P. Nagar. The incident occurred at 11.30 p.m.

Prajwal’s father Venkatesh Prasanna, a senior software engineer at Infosys, was staying with his family on the ground floor. Prajwal was staying in a room on the terrace.

Based on the statements of Prajwal’s family members, the J.P. Nagar police said: “Prajwal had his dinner around 11 p.m. and went to his room to sleep. But he had forgotten to take his mobile phone.

“Around 11.30 p.m. he decided to get his mobile phone. But since the stairs were slippery and full of water, he decided to step on the supporting railing, attached to the staircase. But his left leg got entangled in the railing.”

Hearing his cries for help, his family members rushed to the spot and managed to get him down. They rushed Prajwal, who was in a coma, to a nearby hospital where he died.

Owing to the downpour on Friday night, water had accumulated on the stairs and they were slippery. Therefore, Prajwal had tried to get down through the railings, the police quoted the family as saying.

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