A 25-year-old man, who had gone to a water park in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Sunday, died s🍨hortly after using a slide there, police said, adding that an investig🐲ation has been launched in the matter.
Dhananjay Maheshwari, a resident of Delhi's Adarsh Nagar, and his four friends visited the Enter෴tainment City water park at the Grea🥂t India Place (GIP) Mall in Sector 38A, under Sector 39 police station limits, police said.
After collecting costumes and keeping their belongings in lockers, all of them went straight to the slide, police said, adding that they went through the slide one by one. Maheshwari suddenly꧒ started having trouble breathing, news agency PTI quoted a police spokesperson.
"He sat on the ground to take rest but not feeling any better, he was taken to nearby Kailash Hospital by an ambulance of GIP Mall authorities, where the doctors declared him d𒅌ead," the spokesperson said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Manish Mishra said the family members of Maheshwari also reached Noida🍷 soon after the incident and the body was being sent 🃏for postmortem.
His family has alleged negligence on part of the mall's management, hoꦕwever, the police officer said the claims are being investigated.
"We have initiated lega🥀l proceedings and the body has been sent for autopsy aft♔er which the reason could be confirmed," Manish Mishra said.
