Chennai: Ceiling fan lands on kids in class

Chennai: Irate parents gathered at the Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation higher secondary school in Pammal on Tuesday, a day after 8 students were said to have been injured when a portion of the ceiling along with the ceiling fan came down on their heads during class hours. The parents wanted to thrash the school correspondent for laxity towards student safety.

Police said the incident of the ceiling collapse and falling fan occurred on Monday at around 12.30 pm in classroom VI-C, in which 3 students were injured.  The school management rushed the injured to a private hospital where one of the students required sutures to stop the bleeding.

A section of parents claimed that five more students were injured, and were also treated in the same private hospital in the vicinity. Later, all the injured students were dropped at their doorstep by school staff who may also have struck a deal with parents not to escalate the issue.

The school then tried to hush up the incident by fixing the roof overnight and installing the fan back in its place before patchwork was done to perfection to cover all the traces of the incident. Trouble began when parents who learnt about the incident began gathering in front of the school.