New Delhi: Visuals of over a dozen people lying unconscious on ground at Delhi's Rithala Metro Station became viral across the social media platforms, triggering panic about some untoward incident.


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Several handles on Twitter, which shared the visuals, claimed that those lying on the ground were actually hurt by electrocution.


However, it has now emerged that they were part of a mock drill conducted by the authorities there.


As official statement issued by the authorities later said that it was just a mock drill conducted by District Disaster Management Authority (North-West) Office of the District Magistrate (North-West).


"It is to inform you that the state level mock drill is scheduled to be held on 30/06/2017 at 5 locations of District North-West at one time," it said.


Here's one such video of the Rithala Metro Station mock drill posted on Twitter by a user.