Seven members of a family, including 4 children, were killed after a wall collapsed on their house due to incessant heavy rain in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday in Navghat area of the district, they said.
CM Ashok Gehlot said that rescue teams are on alert and if the situation worsens, the army will be called. The wall collapse incident took place in the Keshoraipatan block of the Bundi district last night where the wall of an old building fell on nearby houses and as per reports 7 members of two families including 4 children, 2 women and a man were buried under the rubble.
The deceased have been identified as Mahendra Kevat (40), his wife Anita (32), Mahaveer's wife Meera (40), Pusi (10), Tammana (9), Deepika (7) and Kanha (5), the police said. Mahaveer escaped unhurt as he rushed out of the house as soon as he heard the sound of the wall collapsing, police said.
The rescue teams are evacuating the villages and people are being shifted to safer places. The maximum rainfall of 280 mm was recorded in Khtouli village in Kota while 7 other places were recorded with more than 200 mm of rain in the last 24 hours.
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