Sub-Inspector dies as roof of ACP office collapses in Ghaziabad after heavy rain
Ghaziabad: In a tragic incident following intense overnight rainfall, a police sub-inspector lost his life after the roof of the Ankur Vihar Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) office in Ghaziabad collapsed early Saturday morning.
The deceased officer has been identified as Sub-Inspector Virendra Mishra, who served as the reader to the ACP. Mishra had stayed overnight at the office and was sleeping when the incident occurred.
Ajay Kumar Singh, the ACP of Ankur Vihar, stated, “During heavy rainfall and gusty winds, the roof of the office collapsed, and the debris fell on the SI who was sleeping on a bed. We discovered the collapse early in the morning, but unfortunately, he had already passed away.”
Authorities have sent the body for post-mortem and initiated a formal inquiry into the structural collapse.
The roof collapse followed a night of extreme weather across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The India Meteorological Department reported wind speeds of up to 82 kmph and 81.2 mm of rainfall between 11:30 pm and 5:30 am. The weather event uprooted trees, damaged infrastructure, and led to widespread waterlogging.
Flight operations at Indira Gandhi International Airport were significantly impacted, with 49 flights, 17 of them international, diverted and 180 flights delayed. Several areas in Delhi including ITO, Dhaula Kuan, and Chanakyapuri reported partial submersion due to waterlogging.
The minimum temperature in Delhi dropped sharply to 19.8 degrees Celsius, 6.9 degrees below normal, as a result of the sudden storm.
A red alert has been issued in Kerala, while Delhi remains under a light rain warning as weather conditions remain unpredictable.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
