There is a wide road outside the institute with ample space for traffic. Other coaching institutes are adjacent to it while a shopping complex is on the opposite side. The coaching institute’s building is surrounded by at least 4 feet tall cement walls with a black iron gate in the middle.On the day of the incident, it was raining like cats and dogs. The road outside the ill-fated institute was submerged in around 3-feet-deep water. Traffic had come to a standstill while people outside had taken shelter in different buildings.Around 6.45 pm, an SUV waded through the rainwater, generating big and strong waves which ultimately crashed into the iron gate of the institute, thereby breaking it down. The gate was till then blocking the rainwater from entering inside the basement.All of this — the waterlogging outside, the SUV driving through the water, the subsequent generation of waves — was recorded on camera by an onlooker from the opposite side of the coaching institute.When the water began gushing into the coaching centre’s basement area, a hue and cry was raised and the occupants started rushing out. Most of them evacuated but three students were left behind.The police were intimated and reached the place within no time. The fire brigade rushed seven rescue vehicles. But by the time they initiated the rescue operation, the three had drowned.
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