6-yr-old dies after fall from 5th floor at Army complex
Times of India | 8 July 2024
Kolkata: A six-year-old boy playing with his eight-year-old sister on the staircase in front of their room on the fifth floor building of an Army complex at Gurusaday Road died after he accidentally slipped through the gap between the side guard railings of the staircase and fell on the ground floor.
The tragic incident happened at Jamuna building inside Ballygunge Maidan Camp around 10pm on Saturday when Class I student Yogesh Nayak fell down all the way from the fifth floor to the ground floor, almost 60 feet below.
Nayak’s father Durga works as a domestic help at the building and lives on the 5th floor servant quarters with his wife, daughter and son. They are originally residents of Tiljala Lane.
“Yogesh and his sister Sakshi were playing on the staircase in front of their room while their parents were inside the room. The girl said that Yogesh had attempted to slide down the side guard wall of the staircase but lost his balance and fell through the gap between the rectangular-shaped staircase, plummeting to the ground floor. He sustained severe injuries on his head,” said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.
As the girl raised an alarm, their parents came running out of the room and were witness to the horrific sight of their son lying on the ground floor in a pool of blood. The parents and neighbours rushed the child to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital in 10 minutes, but he was declared dead on arrival by an attending doctor at the emergency ward.
Cops said, investigation revealed there were no signs of violence and as per preliminary probe it was an act of accident, an officer said.