After seven hours of rescue efforts, the NDRF has ended its search at the coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area where three civil services aspirants died last night when the basement of the building was flooded following heavy rains, officials said on Sunday.
Students held a protest and raised slogans against authorities outside the coaching centre over the deaths in the basement, which according to preliminary probe houses a library.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (central) M Harsha Vardhan said, "NDRF's search operation has ended and three bodies have been recovered. NDRF's rescue operation went on for around seven hours."
Police is looking at CCTV footage to understand the sequence of events, the DCP said.
The bodies of two female students and a male student were retrieved from the site during the rescue operation by the NDRF, local police and fire department.
Police is yet to reveal the names of the victims.
According to the Delhi Fire Department (DFS), a call ab
