IIT-Delhi Research Student Dies After Harappan Excavation Pit Collapses Over Her In Gujarat's Lothal
ABP NewsA 23-year-old Ph D student from Indian Institute of Tecnology-Delhi, died on Wednesday during her research trip to Gujarat's Lothal after an excavation pit near the Harappan Valley Civilisation site collapsed on her and her professor. The deceased, Surabhi Verma, had gone to the ancient port city of Lothal to study paleoclimatology as part of a join team comprising four researchers from IIT-Delhi and IIT-Gandhinagar. P N Gohil, Sub Inspector, Koth police station said the research team was carrying out their exercise in an area which was outside the boundaries of the main protected archeological site. Two other members of the team — Associate Professor VN Prabhakar and Senior Research Fellow Shikha Rai — were from the Archaeological Sciences Centre at IIT Gandhinagar.