Three children drown in Mumbai drains in 6 days
Mumbai, July 15 (UNI): Three children drowned in Mumbai drains over the past six days.
In the latest incident, a seven-year-old boy drowned in an open drain near a garden in the Rajiv Gandhi Colony at Dharavi on Monday, officials said.
The body of Amit Jaiswal was fished out after a few hours by rescuers.
In another incident on Saturday, a 12-year-boy, Bablu Paswan, fell in a pit at a construction site of the coastal road project in
Worli.
The deep pit was flooded with rainwater during the heavy weekend downpour and the teen accidentally fell into it and was killed.
In the third incident on July 10, a two-month-old toddler, Divyanshu Singh, fell in an open drain while playing on the road at Goregaon in north Mumbai.
Despite a massive search for him by the rescue agencies with sophisticated gadgets in a 10 km vicinity right up to the Arabian
Sea, his body has yet to be recovered and is presumed dead.
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has come under severe flak for these incidents, has officially maintained that some miscreants remove manhole covers during heavy rain which lead to such accidents.
Last week, the BMC revealed in a RTI reply to activist Shakeel Ahmed Sheikh that a staggering 328 Mumbaikars, including men, women and children, have lost their lives by drowning in flooded drains, open manholes or in the Arabian Sea in the past five years.
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