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Delhi: Woman, one-year-old grandson die after falling from under-construction building in Dwarka

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Delhi: A 45-year-old woman and her one-year-old grandson died after they accidentally fell from the upper floor of an under-construction building and landed on a moving car in Delhi’s Dwarka, police said.

A call was received at 5.03 PM on Wednesday stating that some workers at an under-construction site in Sector-15, Dwarka, required urgent medical assistance.

A police team reached the spot and learnt that two people had fallen from a height and were taken to Aakash Hospital by locals, officials said.

At the hospital, Mukesh, a labourer and resident of the Bhanera village in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district, told police that his mother, Hari Bai, and his one-year-old son, Raj, accidentally fell from the upper floor of the building and landed on the roof of a moving car.

Both suffered severe injuries and doctors declared them dead, the police said.

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The crime team inspected the spot, and a case under relevant sections of law is being registered, they added.

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