New Delhi, September 10: Five students of a government girl’s school were killed and 33 others injured in a stampede in the national capital on Thursday morning.
The stampede took place on the staircase of a senior secondary school at Khajuri Khas in northeast Delhi following a rumour that there was electric current in a school wall following the incessant rain since Wednesday evening.
Eyewitnesses said the scared girls, all students of classes VII to X, started running to avoid electrocution, which led to the stampede.
Condition of eight students was reported to be serious and they were rushed to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The other 25 injured students were admitted to Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital.
Agitated over the incident the parents and relatives of the students pelted stones at the school. Police force had reached the school and was trying to control the situation.
Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit expressed concern over the incident and said she was going to visit the injured in the hospital.
–Agencies