A five-year-old girl died after an iron rod allegedly “accidentally” fell on her from an under-construction building in East Delhi’s Jagatpuri Extension, police said on Monday.

According to the GTB Enclave Police Station, a PCR call was received around 11 a.m. on September 28 reporting that an iron rod had fallen on a child in Gali No. 4, Jagatpuri Extension.

Police and emergency teams rushed to the spot and found the child, identified, grievously injured and was immediately taken to GTB Hospital, where doctors discovered that the impact had caused severe head trauma and injury to her right eye. “Despite intensive treatment in the ICU, the child succumbed to her injuries during the course of treatment”.

Initial inquiry revealed that a four-storey building was under construction in the a

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