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An 11-year-old lad died aft falling into an unfastened drain portion playing adjacent his location successful Ghaziabad, the constabulary said connected Friday.
The incidental occurred connected Wednesday evening successful the colony of Mazra Jhundpura. The boy, identified arsenic Ahil, was playing astir 50 metres from his location erstwhile helium fell into a 2.5-feet-deep drain, a elder serviceman said.
The incidental comes adjacent connected the heels of the decease of a 27-year-old bundle technologist whose car plunged into a water-filled pit astatine Sector 150 successful Greater Noida connected the intervening nighttime of January 16 and 17.
Ahil’s household members and neighbours pulled him retired and, aft cleaning him with lukewarm water, rushed him successful an unconscious authorities to a infirmary successful Pilkhuwa municipality of neighbouring Hapur district, wherever helium died, the serviceman added.
After completing ineligible formalities and conducting the post-mortem, the assemblage was handed implicit to the household by the Pilkhuwa police. Ahil was laid to remainder connected Thursday.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Masuri) Lipi Nagaich said the section constabulary portion was not informed astir the incidental immediately.
Angry residents alleged negligence connected the portion of the section administration, claiming that the drain was neither covered nor secured with a bound partition contempt children often playing successful the area.
They besides claimed that connected January 8, a five-month-old lad had died aft falling into an unfastened drain successful Momin Colony.
Residents to conscionable DM
The residents said the civic assemblage had made nary betterment to the infrastructure contempt the earlier incident, adding that they would rise the contented of alleged negligence earlier the District Magistrate (DM). Ahil’s father, Zahid, a plumber by profession, is primitively from Soharkha colony successful Greater Noida and presently lives successful Mazra Jhundpura with his woman and children.
