Four persons drowned in separate incidents
in Pune district during the annual Ganesh idol immersions on Thursday and
Friday. The bodies of three of them have been found while the search for the
fourth was on till late on Friday.
In Khadki Cantonment area, a 20-year-old youth, a conservancy
staff member at the house of a military officer in Khadki, drowned when he had
come to a Ghat on Mula river near Ammunition Factory on Thursday evening to see
the visarajan procession. Fire Brigade officials have identified the deceased
as Swapnil Mandare, who according to eyewitnesses, fell into the river after he
slipped around 6.30 pm.
His body was taken out of water in the morning on Friday around
10.30 am. In another incident near Dhayari Bridge, a 22-year-old youth who
had entered the waters to immerse the idol drowned around 6 pm.
In Chakan, a 28-year-old man working with a private company in the same area
and who had come to a Ghat in Chakan for Ganesh Visarjan with his brother
drowned while immersing the idol.
In the fourth incident early Friday, a 52-year-old man who was pulling out of water a raft used for immersing an idol drowned while trying to rescue the person accompanying him. The incident took place around 1.30 am at Pimple Saudagar. Fire brigade personnel have identified the deceased as Shankar Lokhande (52).
Source: TheindianExpress
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