Telangana’s Tania identified among three victims of Delhi coaching centre flood

Taniya Soni (21), the daughter of Vijay Kumar, a manager at SRP-I underground mine in Srirampur was among the three aspirants who met a watery grave when the basement was flooded by rainwater.

Mancherial: A female civil services aspirant from the district was among three persons who drowned in a flooded basement of a building which houses an IAS coaching centre in New Delhi in the evening on Saturday.

Sources said that Taniya Soni (21), elder daughter of Vijay Kumar, a senior manager at SRP-I underground mine in Srirampur, was among the three aspirants who met a watery grave when the basement was flooded by rainwater. Vijay Kumar hails from Bihar. Soni studied in a school in Mancherial town and opted to undergo coaching after graduation. Soni joined the coaching centre with an aim to become an IAS officer a few months back.

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Her parents, who were in Nagpur to admit their younger daughter in a college, rushed to New Delhi upon learning about the incident. Her body was retrieved during a rescue operation taken up jointly by personnel of NDRF, local police and fire department.

The three aspirants were trapped in the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle at Bada Bazar Marg at around 7 pm on Saturday. The building of the coaching centre was flooded following heavy rains. The basement filled up to 12 feet of water in no time, making it impossible for the victims to escape, according to reports.

Vijay Kumar told pressmen that his daughter’s funeral would be held at his native place in Bihar.