FIVE GIRLS KILLED IN DELHI GOVERNMENT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

FIVE GIRLS KILLED IN DELHI GOVERNMENT HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL
A stampede at the government senior secondary school at Khajurikhas in the trans-yamuna area on Thursday 10th September morning left five girls dead and 35 students injured. Six of the victims are in the intensive care unit of the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in a critical condition.
The Delhi government has ordered an enquiry by the area deputy commissioner and announced an exgratia of Rs 1 lakh to the families of each of the diseased and
Rs 50000 to each injured.
Tragedy struck around 9.15 am. When students of classes VII, X, XI and XII were in the school to take the first term examination. Then there was an announcement asking the boys to go to the first floor. A large number of girls were in the corridor and the class rooms on the first floor. When the boys reached there, some of them allegedly started misbehaving with the girls. This apparently triggered panic and the girls ran towards a narrow staircase resulting in the stampede

Prof. John KURAKAR