Click to play videoNew Delhi: A three-year-old girl suffered serious head injury after an iron rod fell on her at a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) site in Lajpat Nagar area late on Saturday night.
Bhawna was strolling in the area with her cousin when the mishap occurred. She was rushed to the AIIMS trauma centre where her condition is said to be critical.
“We had gone for an evening walk when suddenly an iron rod fell on Bhawna and me. DMRC workers ran away without helping us,” Bhawna’s cousin says.
Bhawna’s uncle alleges that he was brutally beaten up when he tried to stop DMRC workers from destroying evidence.
“When I tried to stop the DMRC workers from washing off the bloodstains, they started beating me up. They were trying to manipulate substantial evidences,” Bhawna’s uncle says.
Speaking to CNN-IBN, DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said their chief engineer would be speaking to the family and everybody else who was involved. He, however, insisted that their first priority would be medical care for the child.
“We'll do our best to sort it out. Our first attention naturally is the child. We will do whatever is required. DMRC would take care of the all the medical expenses that the child’s family has incurred,” Dayal said.
Earlier in October, one person was killed and at least nine were injured after a section of under-construction flyover for a DMRC flyover collapsed in East Delhi's Shakarpur area.
Dayal said there was no connection between the two incidents. “The iron got bent; it did not fall down. DMRC is a huge construction project. Today’s incident has no connection with the collapse,” he added.
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