Kanpur/Budaun , In a tragic incident, a man, along with three of his minor daughters, was killed while another daughter of his was seriously injured after their house collapsed amid rain in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district on Sunday, police said.
Police, fire brigade personnel and locals rescued the family members and took them to the Community Health Centre at Patara, where four were declared dead. The victims were identified as Mukesh Kumar and his daughters Maya , Neetu and Pallavi . Three fire tenders with rescue equipment and a mobile disaster-response vehicle were deployed at the spot. Kumar’s cousin Tej Bahadur Singh alleged police negligence, claiming that the family repeatedly called the Saadh police station after the collapse, but the calls were initially not answered. Alerted by the loud crash of the collapsing wall, nearby villagers rushed to the scene and began clearing the debris to rescue those trapped underneath. However, Vinod had already died by then. The villagers pulled his injured wife out of the rubble.
Another daughter of Kumar, Kajal, was seriously injured in the incident and is under treatment at the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital in Kanpur, police said. The exact cause of the collapse is being investigated, the police commissioner told PTI. He said villagers had to launch a rescue operation themselves and worked for nearly two hours to pull the trapped family members out.
