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Pune: A nine-year-old schoolboy was feared to have drowned in the waters accumulated in a pit near the proposed railway flyover in Ghorpadi on Saturday evening. The Mundhwa police identified the deceased as Krish Subhash Angarkar of Ghorpadi area in Pune Cantonment. According to the Mundhwa police, the boy left the school's premises after school hours on Friday.
His elder brother, whose school is on the way, waited for him but Krish did not arrive. Thinking that Krish may have gone home, the elder brother reached their residence but did not find him there. The family then looked for the younger boy in Ghorpadi and in his school.
Later on Friday night, Krish's father lodged a missing person's complaint with the Mundhwa police. Krish was a Std IV student of a school in Ghorpadi. On Saturday, when the family members kept up their search for Krish, some people spotted a school bag floating on the surface of the pit.
Police said that no one stays near it and the pit is protected from all sides by a tin sheet fence. The people called the police who then pumped out the water and found the boy's body at the bottom. He was pronounced dead at Sassoon General Hospital.
Police said they do not know how the boy could have fallen into the pit. Pune: A nine-year-old schoolboy was feared to have drowned in the waters accumulated in a pit near the proposed railway flyover in Ghorpadi on Saturday evening. The Mundhwa police identified the deceased as Krish Subhash Angarkar of Ghorpadi area in Pune Cantonment.
According to the Mundhwa police, the boy left the school's premises after school hours on Friday. His elder brother, whose school is on the way, waited for him but Krish did not arrive. Thinking that Krish may have gone home, the elder brother reached their residence but did not find him there.
The family then looked for the younger boy in Ghorpadi and in his school. Later on Friday night, Krish's father lodged a missing person's complaint with the Mundhwa police. Krish was a Std IV student of a school in Ghorpadi.
On Saturday, when the family members kept up their search for Krish, some people spotted a school bag floating on the surface of the pit. Police said that no one stays near it and the pit is protected from all sides by a tin sheet fence. The people called the police who then pumped out the water and found the boy's body at the bottom.
He was pronounced dead at Sassoon General Hospital. Police said they do not know how the boy could have fallen into the pit. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with EID Wishes , Messages and quotes !.
