UP: Community toilet wall collapses, crushes grandkids of village head who built it

The two girls were playing nerby when the wall came crashing down

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Two minor siblings lost their life when the wall of a community toilet collapsed in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district on Saturday. The toilet was built in 2012 when the the grandfather of the two victims served as the village head.

The incident happened in the Udai Chhapra village under the Bairia police station area of Ballia district. According to the police Anshu (13) and Tanu (11) were playing near the collapsed wall of the toilet. When it came crashing down on Saturday afternoon, the girls got trapped under the debris .

The family took both of them to the local government hospital where the doctor declared them dead, PTI quotes SHO as saying.

He said the deceased sister's grandfather Rajnath Yadav was the head of the village in 2012 when the community toilet was built.

Police are investigating the matter.

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