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Hyderabad: Selfie at Butterfly Park in zoo costs boy his life

Manjeet Choudhary, 17, fell into the water fountain at the Prehistoric Animals Park area in front of his family members.

Hyderabad: A teenager died after falling from a rock inside the Nehru Zoological Park on Tuesday morning while trying to click a selfie.

Manjeet Choudhary, 17, fell into the water fountain at the Prehistoric Animals Park area in front of his family members after falling from the slippery rock in the restricted area.

Bahadurpura police said that Manjeet hit his head on the edge of the fountain’s wall or on the rock during the fall. He was declared brought dead at Osmania General Hospital by the doctors.

Read: Manjeet hurt on head; lost consciousness after the fall, say cops

His family members meanwhile alleged that no guard was present to rescue the boy and that it took more than half an hour for a vehicle to come and take him to hospital.

“My brother would have been alive if an ambulance had reached there on time. It took more than half an hour for zoo officials to send somebody to the accident spot,” said his sister Ninji Chowdari.

She also alleged that Manjeet was electrocuted before falling in the water. Zoo officials said that they had sent their battery vehicle to get Manjeet immediately and had treated him at the zoo clinic.

Youth’s death raises concern
No guards were present when 17-year-old Manjeet fell to his death at the waterfall at the zoo’s Butterfly Park on Tuesday. When asked, a senior zoo official said, “The guard was not present when the incident occurred because he was having lunch somewhere else.

Zoo security officials rushed to the spot to help the boy after he fell and lost consciousness. To prevent such accidents in future the management has decided to raise a fencing all along the waterfall so that no one can enter; the number of rounds for the security will also be increased.”

Last year in August a tiger had managed to get out of its cage, putting the lives of many at risk. In June, a man had managed to enter the jaguar enclosure.
In 2011, a man had died after being hit by the zoo’s toy train.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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