19-yr-old dies in Coimbatore college during disaster preparedness drill


Coimbatore, Jul 13(DC): A 19-year-old undergraduate student died when she jumped off the second floor of her college building during a disaster preparedness drill in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening.

N Logeswari was a second year student pursuing Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) course at Kovai Kalaimagal College of Arts and Science at Narasipuram.

At around 4 pm on Thursday, students of the college were being demonstrated how to escape if disaster strikes. A video of the training session showed Lokeswari perched on the sunshade of the second floor balcony, where the trainer Arumugan, standing next to her was telling her to jump.

Eyewitnesses allege Logeswari was reluctant and did not want to jump but she was prompted repeatedly by the trainer. After a while, the trainer pushed her and she tumbled down hitting her head on the sunshade of the first floor.

Though students standing on the ground were holding a net for Logeshwari to land safely, she crashed to the ground after hitting the sunshade.

According to reports, Logeswari was rushed to a private hospital in Thondamuthur, where she was administered first aid. She was referred to the State-run Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, where she was declared "brought dead".

The police have sent the body for postmortem and the family has been informed.

Trainer, Arumugan has been taken into custody by the police and a case for causing death due to negligence has been filed against him.

College authorities told the police that the drill was conducted by the National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMAI).

Police said about 20 students were given training to jump through an emergency window.

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Fri, Jul 13 2018

    She should have jumped on her own & not pushed by any against her will, he should have assessed the risk of hitting the sun shade of lower floor in case of not jumping a little away from the ledge.
    Disasters never come with warning or any training won't be sufficient or manageable by these amateurs conducting the training.
    Try him for culpable homicide & see that his life gets shortened or well spent inside a jail from where he can be used to train prisoners to jump to their death to escape prison! Let him jump first instead of pushing reluctant participants to their death.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Fri, Jul 13 2018

    The drill was conducted by the National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMAI).

    When the babus run disaster management, well, what can one expect? Just more disasters.

    Imagine if NDMAI had to rescue 13 youngsters from a flooded cave.

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  • NB, Karkala

    Fri, Jul 13 2018

    Rightly said. Therefore, never attend these so-called drills which are conducted by inexperienced people. One life lost for a silly reason. RIP girl.

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  • Sunil K, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 14 2018

    As per news on other media sources the drill was not conducted by National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMAI) and the trainer was a fake.

    The college should have verified the trainer with NDMAI directly and in my opinion such a drill testing one's jumping capabilities should not have been carried out in the first place.

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  • samapth, naravi

    Fri, Jul 13 2018

    the trainer pushed her and he shud be behind bars. RIP girl

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