In a ghastly incident, a four-year-old girl, Syeda Xainab Fathima, died after getting stuck in the lift of her school in Dilsukhnagar this morning.
Fathima, a nursery student of the Sri Chaitanya School in Dilsukhnagar, was being taken along with eight other kids by the ayah from the ground floor to the second floor. At the second floor all the kids came out of the lift, but Fathima, who was at the end, got stuck in the lift as it started to go up. She was killed instantly.
Soon after the accident, scores of parents gathered outside the school and protested wanting to know why the nursery was running in second floor and whether the school had permission to operate the lift. Policemen were called in to control the situation.
Following the incident, several staff members went absconding. The principal, the child's teacher and an education official were eventually arrested.
A police official said that serious action would be taken against the guilty.