Lucknow wall collapse: Rescue operation to tug out these trapped took 6 hours

By PTI

LUCKNOW: The police management room acquired a misery name within the wee hours of Friday concerning the folks trapped underneath the particles of an under-construction boundary wall that had collapsed within the Dilkusha space right here.

The name made amidst heavy downpour at 3.24 am urged rapid intervention and assist, police mentioned.

By 3.27 am, the message was handed on to the police station and the hearth brigade, and within the subsequent quarter-hour, the police drive was strolling in waist-deep water, on the lookout for these trapped underneath the particles, they mentioned.

“As we reached the spot 15 minutes after the message was passed on to the police station, our first priority and effort were to locate the person who had made the call to the control room, and pull him out from the debris,” ACP Cantonment Anup Kumar Singh, who was additionally current on the spot of the incident, advised PTI.

“It was Golu, who had made the call to the police control room. After pulling him from the debris, he was sent to the Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital,” he mentioned.

The fireplace brigade crew additionally arrived on the spot and the wall was regularly damaged and particles have been eliminated.

Following this the our bodies have been pulled out one after the other, he added. The rescue operation continued until round 9.30 am, amidst rains, Singh mentioned, including that the rains slowed down across the similar time the operation ended.

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Narrating the scene and scenario by which, the police, fireplace brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) carried out the rescue operation, Singh mentioned, “The scene and scenario have been such that there was absolute darkness, no electrical energy, steady rainfall and water as much as waist-level excessive by which the rescue operation was carried out.

” Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia had also reached the spot to oversee the rescue work, he added.”

“Some labourers were living in huts outside an Army enclave in the Dilkusha area. Owing to heavy overnight rains, the boundary wall of the Army enclave collapsed,” Joint Commissioner of Police Mordia advised PTI.

“We reached the spot around 3 am. Nine bodies were pulled out from the debris. One person was rescued alive,” he mentioned.

LUCKNOW: The police management room acquired a misery name within the wee hours of Friday concerning the folks trapped underneath the particles of an under-construction boundary wall that had collapsed within the Dilkusha space right here.

The name made amidst heavy downpour at 3.24 am urged rapid intervention and assist, police mentioned.

By 3.27 am, the message was handed on to the police station and the hearth brigade, and within the subsequent quarter-hour, the police drive was strolling in waist-deep water, on the lookout for these trapped underneath the particles, they mentioned.

“As we reached the spot 15 minutes after the message was passed on to the police station, our first priority and effort were to locate the person who had made the call to the control room, and pull him out from the debris,” ACP Cantonment Anup Kumar Singh, who was additionally current on the spot of the incident, advised PTI.

“It was Golu, who had made the call to the police control room. After pulling him from the debris, he was sent to the Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital,” he mentioned.

The fireplace brigade crew additionally arrived on the spot and the wall was regularly damaged and particles have been eliminated.

Following this the our bodies have been pulled out one after the other, he added. The rescue operation continued until round 9.30 am, amidst rains, Singh mentioned, including that the rains slowed down across the similar time the operation ended.

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Narrating the scene and scenario by which, the police, fireplace brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) carried out the rescue operation, Singh mentioned, “The scene and scenario have been such that there was absolute darkness, no electrical energy, steady rainfall and water as much as waist-level excessive by which the rescue operation was carried out.

” Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia had also reached the spot to oversee the rescue work, he added.”

“Some labourers were living in huts outside an Army enclave in the Dilkusha area. Owing to heavy overnight rains, the boundary wall of the Army enclave collapsed,” Joint Commissioner of Police Mordia advised PTI.

“We reached the spot around 3 am. Nine bodies were pulled out from the debris. One person was rescued alive,” he mentioned.