Incessant rains during whole night preceded by heavy downpour in Gurugram took lives of 5 people in different areas of the city. Among the five people, three of them died of electric shock, in separate incidents.
Soon after heavy rains that lashed Gurugram on Wednesday evening, almost all areas were seen flooded with water not only on main roads and streets but also in posh residential areas. Unprecedented waterlogging all around impacted movement of traffic which remained jammed till late night hours. Rain water entered in many residential societies and the level rose to the extent it left parked cars submerged, damaging many of them.
While it was the evening time when most of office goers rush home, many of them scooterists, ifaced brunt of devastation while they dragged their vehicles wading through knee deep waters. The victims included a graphic designer, a security staff, an autodriver, and two labourers.Akshat Jain, from Vishwas Nagar in Delhi, worked as a graphic designer in a private firm in Gurugram.He was returning from a gym to his room in Vatika City in Sector 49 Wednesday night, when he came in contact with an electric pole near Ghasola village and received a shock.Jain was rushed by passersby to a hospital, where he was declared dead.A case was filed at Sector 50 Police Station after Jain's family accused the power department of negligence.
Pawan Kumar, a resident of Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, was crossing the Genpact Chowk as it rained, when he accidentally touched a pole and was electrocuted.The Sukhrali village native was rushed to a hospital but could not be saved, police said.Prashant, a resident of Shahjahanpur in UP, lived in the New Colony area, and had come to visit his uncle's son in Arjun Nagar colony in rain.When he started walking after getting off his bike, his foot touched the shutter of a nearby shop, and received a shock as electricity ran through the metal sheet. He too died.
Around 3 am Thursday, Vanshika, a security staff at the Delhi international airport, was returning home in a cab along with a security guard and a co-worker. Her colleague got down at her home near Sector 10.After dropping her, the driver headed towards Khandsa to drop Vanshika home, but due to rain, which made it hard to see the road ahead, he drove the car into the divider.All three car occupants sustained wounds in the collision and were rushed to a hospital, where Vanshika was declared dead.The fifth to die in yesterday's rain was 27-year-old Shailendra, an auto driver from UP's Kannuaj.
Shailendra fell into an open sewer, hidden underneath the collected rainwater, and died.The incident took place Wednesday night near gate-2 of Sheeshpal Vihar, said police.An FIR was registered at Sadar Police Station in connection with his death.
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