3 fans injured as fencing on wall collapses during cricket camp

Bangalore, Sep 5 (UNI) Unsatiable hunger to watch their favourites -- Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and Indian team skipper Rahul Dravid -- in action resulted in three cricket fans sustaining injuries when an iron fencing erected on a compound wall, on which they were sitting, collapsed here today.

With a blanket of tight security thrown around the NCA grounds and the adjoining Chinnaswamy stadium, the die hard fans, numbering about 40, could find only one way to watch their icons practice.

They climbed over a tree and sat on the fence put up on the ten-ft-high compound wall.

When Sachin and Harbhajan waved at them, they were thrilled, oblivious of the danger of so many of them sitting on the fence. It gave way, injuring three of them. While one of them was admitted to a hospital with head injuries, the other two were treated as out-patients.

Following the incident, training was stopped and the players moved to the Chinnaswamy stadium. Security has been further beefed up to avoid recurrence of such incidents.

Besides Sachin, Dravid and Harbhajan, VRV Singh and Dinesh Mongia were attending the camp for players bound for Kuala Lumpur to play a tri-series against Australia and West Indies.

The 'rolling camp' was being held in batches, with five players taking part in each of them and this was the final batch.

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