A drill instructor has been arrested by the Indian police in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after forcefully pushing a 19-year-old student off the second floor during a safety exercise which led to her death.
Source: Sinar Harian
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N Logeswari, a second-year BBA student at Kovai Kalaimagal College of Arts and Science, suffered severe injuries after her head struck the sun shade of the first floor before tumbling awkwardly to the ground.
Source: BBC
The crowd of students positioned with a crash net below the ledge could only watch with horror of the incident.
According to New Minute, several students had already jumped and made it down safely. The official investigating officer explained that the group has been conducting such exercise in a number of colleges for the past five years and this was the first accident to happen.
“We have arrested the trainer. The victim sustained fatal injuries on her neck and head. The trainer will be charged with causing death due to negligence,” said a police officer.
The college authorities clarified that the drill was conducted by the Nation Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMAI), but according to the Commissioner of Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Agency, Rajendra Ratnoo, the trainer is not a registered trainer of NDMAI and he was not aware of any drills done at the college.
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