Child dies as Sambhal school porch collapses during I-Day festivities

An Independence Day celebration turned tragic in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, when a school porch collapsed under the weight of children who had climbed onto it to watch the programme, killing an eight-year-old boy and injuring two others, police said. The incident occurred at Al-Hasan Public School in Madala Fatehpur village in Sambhal tehsil, where the Independence Day programme was underway in the morning.