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Five children killed in Delhi school stampede: CM orders probe | Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday ordered a high level inquiry into the stampede at a Delhi Government School in East Delhi that killed five students and injured at least 24. Dikshit and state Education Minister
Arvinder Singh Lovely visited the injured and families of the bereaved at the
Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital soon after the tragedy was reported. She announced Rs
one lakh as compensation for the bereaved families and Rs 50,000 for those injured
and added that the treatment costs would be borne by the Delhi Government. She
described the incident as an unfortunate but refused to comment on negligence
by the school authorities. “We have decided that the Deputy Commissioner of East
Delhi will inquire into the incident. We will take every care of the children
in hospital,” Dikshit said. “We greatly regret what happened. This is an accident,
which can happen any time. If at all there has been any fault on part of school
management, only the inquiry will find out,” she added. Deputy Commissioner of
Police (DCP)(North East Delhi) Surender Singh Yadav said he is yet to ascertain
the exact reason for the stampede. “All the kids were called together. Normally,
they have space to stand in the compound, but due to the water and the crowd they
were asked to go upstairs. The girls were asked to go up and the boys to come
down for exams. The stairway is narrow, only 4.5 ft wide and a stampede resulted.
Five suffocated, and 21 are still in hospital,” Joint Commissioner of Police Dharmedra
Kumar said. He also added that rumours of electrocution are still to be verified.
Meanwhile, parents of students agitated outside the school campus. |
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