The body of an 11-year-old boy who fell in the Gujjar Nullah, passing through the KBR Society in Bufferzone Sector 16-A, a day ago was recovered by rescuers on Thursday.
Samanabad police station SHO Sub Inspector (SI) Aamir Azam said Muhammad Rehan, son of Muhammad Saleem, plunged into the stream while playing near it on Wednesday evening. A team of policemen had immediately reached the place of the incident and called for rescue divers to recover the boy’s body, said the SHO. He added that although the rescue operation was joined by divers of the Pakistan Navy on Wednesday night it had got too dark by then to continue with it.
The operation was then resumed early Thursday morning, and it was around 11:00am that the boy’s body was found, SHO Azam stated. The body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for medico-legal examination and then handed over to his family. His funeral prayers were held later in the day. As per the SHO, Rehan’s parents told the police that their son was mentally unfit and slipped in the river while playing with his friends near the river.
Girl drowns in drain
Hunt was still on for the body of a two-year-old girl who fell in an industrial waste drain near Pak Colony on Wednesday.
SITE Division SP, Asif Ali Bughio, said Seema, daughter of Mardan, slipped into the drain a day ago, but the divers have been unable to recover her body.
SP Bughio believed her body may have floated to the Lyari River, since the drain falls into the river at some that distance from where the girl fell into the drain.