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A large mishap was narrowly averted aft a century-old banyan histrion got uprooted and fell connected the premises of Government Vocational Higher Secondary School astatine Koodal.
The incidental occurred connected Sunday nighttime erstwhile the histrion came crashing down amid dense rainfall and beardown winds, respective hours earlier the reopening of the school.
The schoolhouse authorities said the histrion had been providing shadiness successful the schoolhouse compound for decades. During moving days, the country beneath the histrion is frequented by students, making the incidental peculiarly alarming.
The schoolhouse functions nether the power of the Pathanamthitta territory panchayat.
The incidental has erstwhile again highlighted concerns implicit the information of schoolhouse buildings successful the district.
On Sunday afternoon, the extortion of a schoolhouse gathering astatine Thannithodu was damaged successful beardown upwind and dense rain.
