Family of two tribal kids, who died in house collapse, allege lack of emergency services
The mother of two tribal children, who died after the sunshade of their under-construction home in Attappady in Kerala’s Palakkad district collapsed on Saturday, decried the absence of emergency vehicles, such as ambulances, adding that one of her two children could have been saved. Family of two tribal kids, who died in house collapse, allege lack of emergency services The children — Aadi (7) and Ajnesh (4) — died on Saturday evening after the sunshade of their home collapsed upon them while they were playing outside in the Karuvara settlement of Attappady. Another child suffered serious injuries and is under treatment. Both deceased children had to be taken on a motorbike first to a private clinic and then to the nearest government hospital in Kottathara, where they were declared brought dead, after multiple attempts to get a vehicle or ambulance on time failed. It took the family more than an hour to transport the children to the private clinic. “We lost my younger one on the spot. But the elder one, when pulled out of …
