Deccan Chronicle

YOUTH DIES OF CARDIAC ARREST WHILE DANCING

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Over 17,000 personnel from the Hyderabad police were deployed to oversee the immersion procession and move things along, together with NCC cadets and NSS volunteers on the Hussainsag­ar stretch on Sunday.

Also, on the ground were 13 units of the anti-Maoist Greyhounds, two units of the terror-buster Octopus on the immersion routes.

Apart from this, emergency teams like Vajra vehicles, gas squad and quick response teams were also stationed at the immersion centres. Bomb disposal squads, sniffer dogs were deployed at some of the more famous Ganesh pandals.

Director General of Police M. Mahendar Reddy and other top officials including Mr Avinash Mohanty and Ms Shikha Goel monitored the procession at the control centre that was receiving feed from CCTV cameras along the entire length of the immersion.

“Emergency response teams were stationed at strategic locations. They were deployed based on previous experience of Ganesh bandobast and knowledge of sensitive and hypersensi­tive areas,” an official said. Government, police and civic body officials had held meetings with the Ganesh Utsav Samiti to A 25-year-old man, who was dancing in the Ganesh procession in an inebriated condition in Borabanda of SR Nagar died following a cardiac arrest on Sunday.

According to the SR Nagar police, the deceased was identified as Satish, a private employee, residing in Peddamma Nagar of Borabanda, SR Nagar. “The cause of his death is suspected to be a cardiac ensure that the procession moved along swiftly.

The command control at the state police headquarte­rs received CCTV arrest. We have shifted his body for postmortem to reveal the reason behind his demise,” said the officials, adding that no case has been booked as it was a natural death. feed from major towns to enable monitoring on a real-time basis. Besides this, the idols were geotagged, said Hyderabad An assistant sub-inspector of Komaravall­i police station who was stationed at Habeebnaga­r for the Ganesh immersion procession died of a heart attack early on Sunday morning while he was on duty.

According to the police, Nimra Naik, 55, collapsed at about 4 am.

Habeebnaga­r inspector P. Madhukar Swamy said Naik had complained of chest pain and had fallen unconsciou­s at around 4 am.

“He was rushed to the hospital with the help of officials where doctors declared him dead,” Mr Swamy said. police commission­er Anjani Kumar.

The DGP asked people not to believe in social media rumours.

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