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NEW DELHI: A miraculous escape and a tragic bolt from the blue; this bizarre incident was both. A 60-year-old man sleeping on a cycle cart outside his house in north Delhi's Sarai Rohilla was crushed to death when another person, who accidentally fell from the third-floor terrace of an adjacent building, dropped straight on the sleeping man.

Ravinder, the man who fell from the rooftop, escaped with a minor fracture and a few cuts over his eye.

He told police he accidentally tipped over while sitting on the ledge of the terrace and talking on his phone on Saturday night. Weighing over 90kg, Ravinder landed on the victim, Madan Lal . Lal's autopsy revealed a broken rib cage and damage to internal organs.

Just before the accident, Lal and his granddaughter had stepped out of their house at Lalita Colony to play. After some time, the girl felt sleepy and Lal put her to bed. Around 10.30am, he too went to sleep on his cycle cart. Lal's neighbour, Nikhat, heard a loud crash. "I initially thought a portion of the wall and fallen on him. I saw this man lying on Baba (Lal). He seemed to be drunk and could barely move. We managed to roll him over and pull out Baba," she said. Locals rushed Ravinder and Lal to a hospital where Lal was declared dead.

