Two children among three dead as Visakhapatnam apartment collapses
Visakhapatnam (PTI): Two children and an adult were crushed to death when a three-storeyed residential building collapsed in the small hours of Thursday in Visakhapatnam, a police official said.
At the time of the collapse, eight tenants from three families living on three floors were present in the building. Two of them were children, and both died.
"Suddenly at 1.30 in the morning, the whole structure collapsed," Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Sunil Garud said, sharing the preliminary information said. "Police and fire services responded immediately and with quick action we could rescue five of them."
Had the police and fire services not attended to the emergency immediately, Garud said, more occupants of the building would have died.
The IPS officer, who spent two hours at the accident site, oversaw the rescue of a woman. Five rescued tenants are undergoing treatment in hospital.
Meanwhile, police booked a case under Section 174 of CrPC (police must enquire and report on the circumstances of death) and are in the process of taking an expert opinion to ascertain the cause of the old building's collapse.
According to Garud, another building is also being constructed beside the collapsed one.
Andhra Pradesh | Several injured after a three-storey building collapsed in Ramajogi Peta near the Collectorate in Visakhapatnam. Search and rescue operation underway. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/XqoevMHE1I
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2023
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#WATCH | Andhra Pradesh: 3 people died and 3 got injured after a three-storey building collapsed in Ramajogi Peta near the Collectorate in Visakhapatnam last night.
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2023
Earlier visuals of search and rescue operation. pic.twitter.com/WMTjrY8MVh
#WATCH | Andhra Pradesh: 3 people died and 3 got injured after a three-storey building collapsed in Ramajogi Peta near the Collectorate in Visakhapatnam last night.
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2023
Search and rescue operation underway. pic.twitter.com/NgJJ2zcdhF
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West Bengal board declares class 10 exam results, 86.83 pc students pass
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal board's class 10 results were declared on Friday, with 86.83 per cent of the total 9.71 lakh candidates passing the examination, an official said.
In last year's Madhyamik Pariksha, 86.56 per cent of the 9.84 lakh students were declared successful, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education president Ramanuj Ganguly said.
This year's examination was held from February 2 to February 12 at over 2,600 centres across the state, he said.
Abhirup Bhadra of Sarada Vidyamandir in Uttar Dinajpur district bagged the first rank, securing 698 of 700 marks. Priyotosh Mukhopadhyay of Sarojinidevi Saraswati Sishu Mandir in Birbhum was declared second with 696 marks. The third rank was shared by three students.
A total of 131 students secured the top 10 ranks, of whom 28 were girls.
Kalimpong recorded the highest percentage at 95.01, followed by Purba Medinipur at 94.02 and Kolkata at 92.31.
