Software engineer falls to death from terrace

23-year-old software engineer falls to death from terrace.

A 23-year-old software engineer fell from the terrace of her apartment near Electronic City and committed suicide. The deceased, Swagatika Das, was a native of Jharkand and had been staying at the apartment for the past year-and-a-half.

According to the police, Sawgatika was engaged to Mr Robin Mandela, who is a software engineer. “Swagatika and Mr Mandela were working in Pune for different companies but both took transfers to Bengaluru and were staying on different floors of the same apartment in Konappana Agrahara near Electronic City. Their families had agreed to their marriage and the couple was recently engaged,” said the police.

According to Mr Mandela, Swagatika and Mr Mandela had gone to the terrace on Monday night and while they were talking, Swagatika reportedly stepped on the parapet and lost balance. The incident occurred at around 10.30 pm. The Electronic City police have sent the body for a post mortem and a case of unnatural death has been registered.

In another incident, a 24-year-old woman committed suicide within the Kamakshipalya police station limits on Monday night. The deceased,Shashikala, was a resident of Meenakshinagar.

The police said that Shashikala’s husband had passed away a while ago and Shashikala had a second marriage and married Shivakanth around two years ago. However, the couple used to quarrel frequently after Shashikala found out that Shivakanth intended to marry another colleague and leave Shashikala. The Kamakshipalya police have taken Shivakanth into custody and are questioning him.

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New Delhi building collapsed

Five-story apartment building collapsed into a mountain of rubble, New Delhi India.

Delhi News Updates! Rescuers hammered slabs of concrete and dug with their hands Tuesday to pull survivors and bodies from a five-story apartment building that collapsed into a mountain of rubble in a poor New Delhi neighborhood. At least 65 people were killed and scores injured.

The 15-year-old building housing hundreds of people - mostly migrant workers and their families - collapsed Monday evening in New Delhi's congested Lalita Park area, where emergency efforts were hampered because vehicles had difficulty navigating its narrow alleyways.

"The scale of the tragedy is unprecedented," New Delhi's top elected official, Sheila Dikshit, said as she toured the site.

Residents said they heard a rumble like thunder as the building collapsed upon itself. Then they sprinted to the site.

"There was nothing left, only people helping each other. There were so many dead bodies, there was no movement at all," said Dil Nawaz Ahmed, a 25-year-old journalist who lives nearby.

He dug into the piles of concrete, bricks and mortar with other volunteers and managed to help free five injured residents, he said. But he mainly pulled out bodies, which he carried to waiting ambulances several buildings away.

M.D. Shahanawaz, a 23-year-old student, teared up as his hopes for a friend who lived in the building dwindled.

"He's dead," he said. "Everybody is coming out critical or dead."

The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear. One official said the building may have been weakened by water damage following monsoon rains; Residents said the landlord was illegally constructing an additional floor on the building.

Officials ordered the evacuation of at least one other nearby building that they feared could collapse too, Dikshit said. It also had a flooded basement.

Police said they had filed charges against Amrit Singh, the owner of the building, and a search was on to locate him. Residents said he fled the area right after the building collapsed.

Local volunteers digging for survivors with their bare hands eventually were joined by police and firefighters, who used jackhammers to cut through the iron rods jutting from the wreckage. Police brought in sniffer dogs to locate people trapped under the debris.