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Boy falls into sewer

Richa Sharma

High-level magisterial inquiry ordered

— Photo: PTI

Army personnel search for a boy who fell into a sewer on Tuesday morning at Islamnagar in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Ghaziabad: A 12-year-old boy fell into a deep sewer while playing here on Tuesday, triggering a massive search by emergency workers and Army personnel. He has not been found as yet.

Aas Mohammad fell into the 15-foot-deep open manhole in Islamnagar. The local authorities after failing to find him called in the Army for rescue operation.

Twelve hours later, the rescue teams were still scouring the four-km-long sewer, battling the heavy flow of water.

An engineering detachment and two medical teams of the Army that had rushed in from Delhi and Meerut were on the job. It took five hours for them to get the sitemap of the drain and water lines from local authorities.

"We came to the spot around 12:30 p.m. and asked for the sitemap. But the local administration provided us with one at around 5:30 p.m. Without a sitemap, we were blindly searching the sewer for the boy,'' an Army official said.

The rescue teams pumped out water from the sewer and have so far searched eight manholes in the vicinity.

As local residents complained that the manhole had been lying uncovered for the last two-three months, the district administration ordered a high-level magisterial inquiry.

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