Three students died while others are reportedly missing after the basement of a coaching centre flooded in Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar on Saturday.
Many students are stuck in the basement of an IAS training centre named Rao Coaching Centre while the fire department, NDRF and Delhi Police conduct search and rescue operations.
Officials say that the rescue operations are getting hampered by low visibility. The water is being pumped out of the basement with the help of electric motor pumps.
The fire department received a distress call around 7 pm on Saturday following which an immediate response team was dispatched to the area.
Officials tried to reach the trapped students on their mobile phones but they could not contact them as they were out of service.
“At 7 pm, we received information that the basement of a USPC coaching institute in Rajender Nagar has been flooded with the possibility of some people trapped. There was waterlogging on the road due to heavy rains this evening. We are investigating the matter that how the entire basement got flooded. It appears that the basement got flooded very fast and some people got trapped inside the basement,” DCP Central M Harshavardhan said.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj has reached the spot with Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on his way.
In a post on X, Delhi Minister Atishi said, “There is news of water filling in the basement of a coaching institute in Rajendra Nagar Delhi Fire Department and NDRF are on the spot. Delhi Mayor and local MLA are also there. I am taking updates on the incident every minute.”
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1 student dead, 2 others missing after basement of IAS coaching centre floods in Delhi
