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2 sisters get locked up in farmhouse garage, one dies

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September 20, 2016

New Delhi, Sep 20: An 18-month-old girl died of starvation and her older sister is in a critical condition after they got “accidentally” locked up for almost three days in a farmhouse garage in West Delhi’s Nihal Vihar.girl

The deceased’s sister, a three-year-old child, is badly starved and in a critical condition but is expected to survive, said Dependra Pathak, Joint CP (South-Western Range).

The officer said preliminary investigation pointed towards the sisters getting locked up accidentally but a decision on registering an FIR would be taken after a further probe.

The girls lived with their parents in a neighbouring farmhouse where they are employed. The area is dotted with several such farmhouses.

The girls wandered over to the neighbouring farmhouse last Friday afternoon. The police said prima facie it appears no one spotted them walking into a garage.

The man in-charge of the garage has told the police that he did not know anyone was inside the garage when he downed the shutters on Friday evening.

“Saturday and Sunday being holidays, the man apparently did not turn up for work because of which the girls remained locked inside through the three days,” said Mr. Pathak.

The girls’ parents, meanwhile, had searched the entire area for their children before approaching the police for registering a missing complaint. However, no one in the search parties guessed that the sisters could be in the garage.

It was only when the garage in-charge opened the shutters on Monday afternoon did the incident come to light.

The man heard moans emanating from one corner of the garage. When he went to the corner, he noticed the three-year-old girl lying half unconscious and her sister in her arms.

He immediately raised an alarm after which the sisters were rushed to a hospital where the younger one was declared dead. The elder girl has been admitted to the intensive care unit.

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April 5,2020

Nagpur, Apr 5: A 23-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Imambada area in Nagpur on Saturday due to financial distress, police said.

Nikhil Gavhane, who worked in a grocery shop, hanged himself as he had taken money from a person and was stressed over repayment, an official said.

"He was depressed since a week," the Imambada police station official said.

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Agencies
March 3,2020

Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.

His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.

Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.

Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.

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May 26,2020

New Delhi, May 26: A massive fire broke out on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in the slums of the Tughlaqabad area in south east Delhi in which over 250 shanties were gutted, however, no one was injured, fire officials said.

Atul Garg, Chief Fire Officer, told IANS, "We came to know about the fire in the slums around 12.15 a.m. following which 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. And the fire was brought under control by 4 a.m."

He said, the Tughalaqbad slums have over 500 shanties, out of which over 250 have been destroyed in the fire.

He said, it took time for the fire tenders to reach the spot as it was on the hills, but the fire was doused within four hours and by 8 a.m. cooling off procedure has also been completed.

When asked if there is any casualty in the incident, he said, "No injury or casualty has been reported."

He also said that as of now the actual reason for the fire is not known. "But we are trying to find out the reason of the fire," Garg added.

South East Deputy Commissioner of Police R.P. Meena said, "In the night it seemed that almost 500 shanties were gutted. However, in the morning it became clear that only 250 shanties have been gutted in fire."

He said, the South East district police after receiving the call also rushed the ambulances and the local police team in the area for rescue operation. Meena further said that very few people were residing in the shanties, and the people came out of their shanties after the fire broke out in one of them.

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