DCP (southeast) Rajesh Deo said they received a PCR call around 6.23 am on Friday regarding a man drowned in Okhla underpass after which the police along with emergency officer reached the spot and found one unconscious person namely Digvijay Kumar Chaudhary, a resident of Badarpur.”The man was riding one two-wheeler. His body was removed from the water and sent to AIIMS Trauma Centre where he was declared dead,” Deo said.In southwest Delhi, after a nearly 24-hour-long operation, the rescue agencies managed to pull out the bodies of three labourers who were trapped under a massive rubble of a collapsed under-construction structure in Vasant Vihar area.The three labourers – Santosh Yadav (19), Santosh (19) and Daya Ram (45) – were trapped in a mud slush caused due to heavy rains.”It was an under-construction site in Vasant Vihar where some labourers were sleeping and the ground caved in due to the heavy rainfall,” an officer told this newspaper.He informed that initially divers were sent to enter the muddy area but that attempt did not work out. Parallely, teams of police, NDRF, DDMA, and civic agencies also reached the spot to assist in the rescue operation.A massive operation was then initiated to fish out their bodies, starting from the early hours of Friday till Saturday morning. The bodies were then taken to Safdarjung Hospital.When asked why the operation took so much time, DCP (southwest) Rohit Meena told TNIE that the rescue agencies used machines to drain the water out from the pit but the slush was way too thick which was repeatedly getting stuck in the machine pipes.The NDRF also used cranes to clear the debris and water was continously pumped out of the foundation pit to recover the bodies.The heavy overnight rains unleashed fury over the residents of the national capital as at least 11 lives in total were lost in separate incidents, including the death of four kids aged between eight to ten years.
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