Four members of a family killed, 4 injured in rain-related incidents

FOUR people, including a woman and her three young children, were killed, and four others were injured in two separate rain-related incidents in the city on Friday morning.

- NITIN RAWAT @ New Delhi

In the first incident, a 28-year-old woman, Jyoti, along with her children Aryan (7), Rishabh (5), and Priyansh (7 months), died when a tree fell on their single-room house in Jaffarpur Kalan, southwest Delhi, following a heavy rainstorm. The neem tree collapsed onto the room, which was located near a tubewell.

The victims were trapped under the debris. Fire department officials received a distress call around 5.24 am and rushed three fire tenders to the scene, initiating a rescue operation.

By 8 am, the rescue operation was completed, and five people, including Jyoti's husband Ajay Singh (30), were pulled out from the rubble. Singh, who suffered chest and wrist injuries, was immediately rushed to Rao Tula Ram Hospital.