2 KIDS DIE AFTER FALLING FROM THIRD FLOOR
■ Tried saving the girls, but couldn’t, says neighbour
● Two girls on Wednesday died after falling from the third floor of their apartment. The victims have been identified as 18-monthold D. Shreya who was playing along with neighbour, D. Pallavi, 10. Both succumbed to their injuries.
A regular pleasant evening took a grim turn as the residents of Chilkalguda railway quarters witnessed the horror of two girls falling off from the third floor of the four-storeyed building on Tuesday evening.
D. Shreya, the 18month-old girl was playing along with her neighbour, D. Pallavi, a 10year-old Class VIII student on their apartment floor when she climbed over the fence and was about to slip off the edge when Pallavi caught hold of her dress from behind to save her but in vain.
Both the girls succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment later in the evening.
Shreya fell to her death and she was followed by Pallavi, who could not balance her weight and fell legs first on a parked car and further to the ground, police said.
The father of Shreya, D. Krishna Prasad, 43, is a railway employee and was sharing the floor with his neighbour, D. Babu Rao, whose daughter Pallavi was playing with Shreya on Tuesday, said the Police Inspector of Chilkalguda A.C. Balagangi Reddy.
“The parents were in the house during the incident. The two girls came out to play and were doing so at the edge of the floor near the fence. All the parents and the residents could hear was a thud, followed by a loud bang as the girls fell. The locals rushed to the rescue and helped the parents shift them to hospital. Shreya was taken to Railway Hospital in Lalaguda on their parent’s bike and Pallavi’s parents also took their daughter there. The doctors said that Shreya’s condition was serious and she was shifted to KIMS hospital in Minister road through the railway hospital ambulance, where she succumbed to her injuries at 8.15 pm. Pallavi was declared dead at 9.15 pm,” said the sub-inspector of Chilkalguda Police, P. Raja Shekar.
Bindu, also a railway employee residing opposite to their building, was outside her house during the incident and was chatting with others when she saw Shreya falling.
“I impulsively ran towards the place in an attempt to catch them, stop them from falling or do something but it all happened too fast. None of us could have done anything. The impact injured the girls very badly. The street was crowded and had kids playing around as usual” she said.
Narrating his version of the event, a youngster from the block said “Pallavi akka was a very private person and would not mingle with us much. We saw her trying to catch Shreya papa and she lost her balance off the fence as her leg slipped in an attempt to catch and hold her. There was so much blood all over the place”
Chilkalguda Police booked cases under section 174 of CrPC and shifted the bodies for postmortem examination, following which the respective families left the city to their native places to perform the last rites.