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.
Kanpur’s Commissioner of Police Raghubir Lal told PTI that in Hirni village, all five members of a family were trapped under the debris after their “kutcha” house collapsed around 11 am. 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. The front portion of the “kutcha” house was completely damaged, while a room-like structure in the rear portion was partially damaged, police said.
He said villagers had to launch a rescue operation themselves and worked for nearly two hours to pull the trapped family members out.
