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Five drown in two separate incidents in Pune

Published on: Jun 01, 2025 06:34 AM IST

चार किशोर लड़के कडचिवाड़ी में एक जलाशय में डूब गए। सभी के शव बरामद किए गए। एक अन्य 17 वर्षीय लड़का लोनावला में डूबा।

Four teenage boys drowned while swimming in a percolation tank in Kadachiwadi near Chakan on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Omkar Babasaheb Hange,13, Shlok Jagdish Mankar, 11, Prasad Shankar Deshmukh, 11, and Naitik Gopal More, 12, all residents of Medankarwadi.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the boys were not familiar with the water body’s depth, resulting in the fatal accident. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Pramod Wagh, senior police inspector at Chakan police station said, “At around 11 am a group of four boys left home. Later they entered the water to swim but were unable to gauge its depth, which led to all four of them drowning.”

When they did not return home, their parents approached the police. During the search, their clothes and footwear were found at the bank of the pond. Immediately a team of Chakan police, local trekking groups were rushed to the spot and by the evening, all dead bodies were recovered from the water.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the boys were not familiar with the water body’s depth, resulting in the fatal accident.

Police said, all the parents are workers and migrated from various parts of the state for the employment purpose. The bodies have been sent for the post-mortem procedure and an accidental death case has been filed at Chakan police station.

 
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