Students died as ‘land developer ignored’ school’s request -
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Officials at Pushpanjali Secondary School, where two students were buried to death when a retaining wall collapsed into their classrooms on Friday morning, said they had requested the land developer who built the wall not to erect such a heavy structure so close to the school.School principal Puhamikanti Lepcha Bajracharya lamented that the children lost their lives as the land developer did not listen to repeated requests not to build the heavy wall right there.“We had repeatedly asked the land developer to level the sloping land in the plotting area,” the principal said. The 10-foot retaining wall loomed above the classrooms. The wall constructed with heavy rocks collapsed after rainwater weakened its base, leaving two students dead and 25 injured, a few of them seriously.The school located at Taukhel, Badegaon in Godawari Municipality-6, had built its classrooms with prefabricated walls a few months after the devastating earthquake last year.
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