Five girls killed; 27 injured in stampede in Delhi school

New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) Tragedy struck a government
secondary school in Indian national capital New Delhi Thursday
when five girls were killed and 27 other students injured, six
of them very critically, in a stampede.
The incident occurred when students were trying to make
their way up and down a narrow staircase when they were asked
to shift classrooms during an examination at around 9 AM IST
in the Khajuri Khas Senior Secondary School, officials said.
State Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said a high-level
enquiry has been ordered and action will be taken against the
guilty.
The Government announced compensation of Rs one lakh and
Rs 50,000 each respectively to the next of kin of the deceased
and the injured.
Some students said they were asked to shift classes as
certain classrooms were water-logged due to incessant rains
since Wednesday night. One of the girls, going down the
staircase, fell leading to the stampede.
Police officials investigating the incident said local
residents told them that some boys allegedly barged into a
classroom for girls students and might have resorted to
eve-teasing.
Earlier reports said a rumour about electric charge in
water led to the stampede but locals refuted it saying that
the area had no power supply at the time of the incident.
"Some students were rushing up while some were running
down the stair case to reach their classes as a result of
which the stampede took place," Dikshit told reporters. (MORE)
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