8-year-old crushed under half-demolished home in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: An eight-year-old girl died and two other family members were hurt when the wall of their old house, which they had partially demolished to begin reconstruction, fell while they were removing debris in Bagh Lingampally on Monday morning.
Cops said that the owner, Sai Krishna, a private security guard, had shifted his family comprising five daughters and his mother to a relative’s home nearby as he was rebuilding his house. On Monday morning Krishna had taken along his two daughters and mother to help him with cleaning work at their old home when tragedy struck.
“The walls of the house were broken. The front wall near the door was standing without any support and this part later fell on the girl while they were removing bricks. The incident happened around 10.40am,” said Chikkadpally inspector Shiva Shankar Rao.
While eight-year-old Jayashree was crushed under the wall, her elder sister Divyasree (10) and grandmother S Vijaya (50) were pulled out by her father with the help of locals. Divyasree fractured a hip bone while her grandmother suffered a head injury, Chikkadpally SI R Kotesh said.
Police shifted the girl’s body to Osmania General Hospital mortuary and registered a case of accidental death.