The roof of the ACP office in Ghaziabad’s Ankur Vihar house collapsed following heavy rain and a robust storm.

Ghaziabad:

A 58-year-old sub-inspector misplaced his life after the roof of the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) office collapsed in Ghaziabad’s Ankur Vihar house all through excessive storms and heavy rainfall inside the early hours of Sunday, talked about officers. 

The deceased officer, acknowledged as Veerendra Mishra, was posted on the office in Ankur Vihar because the personal assistant to the ACP. Additional Police Commissioner Alok Priyadarshi confirmed the incident.

Virendra Kumar Mishra was sleeping inside a room and was found buried beneath the particles.

Roof of ACP office collapses | VIDEO

The collapse went unnoticed until police personnel arrived on the office inside the morning. They found Sub-Inspector Mishra trapped beneath the particles, pulled him out, and rushed him to a hospital, the place he was declared ineffective.

Police talked about that his family inside the Etawah district has been educated.

On the demise of a police SI due to roof collapse, Ankur Vihar ACP Jay Kumar Singh talked about, “Today, on May 25, the office roof collapsed during the night due to storms and heavy rainfall. SI Virendra Mishra lost his life in the roof collapse accident. He was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead. He was from Itawah. His family, residing in Delhi, was informed and reached here. Further action is underway.”

Gusty winds and heavy rain lash Delhi-NCR

Heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, and highly effective winds battered a lot of parts of Delhi and its neighbouring areas on Sunday (May 25) night, following a ‘purple alert’ issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warning of utmost thunderstorms and gusty winds reaching speeds of 40-60 km per hour. The heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms moreover lashed a lot of parts of Haryana’s Jhajjar. Gusty winds associated to thunderstorms have been reported over fully totally different parts of Delhi-NCR between 1:30 am and three:00 am on May 25.

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