Hyderabad: An engineering girl student died and 17 others got injured in an accident which took place during a dandiya event organised inside MVSR Engineering College at Nadergul village in Adibatla . The metal structure which was arranged for illumination fell on them.




On Saturday night, a large number of students gathered to participate in a dandiya night organised on the college campus. They arranged a stage, which had a huge metal frame to decorate it with lighting in a part of the ground. Similar lighting with a frame was set up at a different location in the ground. Suddenly, this frame came crashing down and fell on the students who were celebrating.




Immediately after the accident, there was chaos on the campus. Realising that many students got injured, the college staff and students shifted the injured to different hospitals.




Adibatla inspector S Ramesh said that preliminary information shows that the deceased’s name reportedly is Sona and police got information that another girl is shifted to a private hospital and status of her condition is being ascertained’’. The remaining 17 persons who got injured are safe and they escaped with minor injuries. The incident took place at 7.30 pm.




Meanwhile, on knowing about the accident, chief minister A Revanth Reddy in a statement told police to take strict action against those responsible. CM Reddy expressed shock over the death of a student in an accident at MVSR Engineering College in Nadergul. The CM expressed condolences to the student’s family and instructed that better medical treatment be provided to the injured students. The CM ordered that those responsible for the accident be identified and strict action be taken,’’ the office of CM said on Saturday night.