Tragic Loss: Three Civil Services Aspirants Die in Flooded Library Basement

The body of Nevin Devlin, a PhD student from JNU, was handed over to his family after he and two others were killed in a flooded basement of a coaching center. The failure of a single biometric entry and exit point during heavy rain led to the tragic incident.

The body of Nevin Devlin, one of three civil services aspirants who tragically lost their lives after the basement of a coaching center here was flooded following heavy rain, was handed over to his family on Monday after post-mortem.

The bodies of the other two students were handed over to their families on Sunday.

Devlin's body was handed over to his maternal uncle, Linu Raj, at RML hospital and then taken for embalming.

"We will take an evening flight and transport his body to Trivandrum, his native place, for the funeral. We learned about the incident on Sunday morning," his uncle said.

Devlin was pursuing a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

He and the other two students died after a library housed in the basement of Rau's IAS centre was inundated on Saturday night, reportedly causing the failure of the single biometric entry and exit point.

(With inputs from agencies.)