Teacher pushed a student down stairs causing fracture

Chennai: A woman has held up a protest with the Vyasarpadi police expressing that a teacher in a corporation elementary school in Ganeshpuram had beaten up her nine-year-old child and pushed down in the staircase, abandoning him with a broken hand.

Following the complaint, the school authorities issued a transfer certificate to the victim and his brother, said the boy’s mother Athilakshmi, a maid. “The teacher warned me for sleeping and beat me up. She was in a hurry to send all the students out. Since I was packing my bag slowly, she pushed me towards the staircase and I rolled down,” said Tamizhselvan, a Class IV student.

“Though I told the school authorities that my son’s pain was unbearable, they brought a doctor who asked us to apply pain balm. An X-ray test later revealed that he suffered a fracture on his left hand, said Athilakshmi. “They told me I should provide a leave letter since Tamizhselvan would be on leave until his hand healed. Since I don’t know to read and write, they sought my signature on an empty paper. Later on Friday, they told me to withdraw three of my children from the school. They handed over the transfer certificates for Tamizhselvan and Sathish and told me not to bring my daughter Sanjana to school again.”

“Instead of taking action, the Vyasarpadi police forced me to accept a ‘compensation’ of Rs 10,000 and asked me to withdraw the complaint,” Athilakshmi said.

City corporation deputy commissioner (education) Mageswari Ravi Kumar revealed to TOI that the accusation was false. She said the child had fallen down amid a fight with other students and that his parents had decided to pull the children out of the school. Inspector Mohanraj also said the teacher was innocent. He denied offering Rs 10,000 for medical expenses.

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Fireworks explosion kills 24 and injured 49 in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY — Twenty-four individuals, including a child, were killed and no less than 49 others were injured Thursday when two blasts tore through fireworks workshops in a town just  north of Mexico City.

The dead included four firefighters and two cops who rushed to the scene after the main blast, just to be by killed by the second blast.

In an initial statement said by the government of the State of Mexico, there were eight people from the town of Tultepec were killed, along with the six emergency personnel and two other people who hadn't yet been recognized. The state government later raised the loss of life to 24.

First responders were also among the injured said by the government. Helicopters took the injured to several hospitals, and more than 300 police were sent to the scene.

Many residents make a living by creating and selling homemade fireworks and explosions are a regular occurrence. In June, seven people were killed and eight others were injured in a blast in Tultepec.

In December 2016, in an open-air fireworks market crowded with holiday shoppers a massive fire broke out killing several dozens of people.

In other places in Mexico deadly fireworks explosions have also occurred. In 2002, a blast at a market in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz killed 29 people; in 1999, 63 people died when an explosion of illegally stored fireworks destroyed part of the city of Celaya; in 1988, a fireworks blast in Mexico City's La Merced market killed at least 68 people; and in 2013, a rocket struck a truck loaded with fireworks for a religious procession in Tlaxcala state, killing 17 people.

Security measures at firecrackers workshops and markets have been a matter of constant debate in Mexico. While regulations exist on the books, many continue making powerful firecrackers and bottle rockets and selling them to the public.

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