Minor boy falls to death in open manhole

A three-year-old boy fell to his death in an open manhole in the Mawach Goth locality on Tuesday, according to rescue officials. However, police claimed that no such incident had occurred.

An Edhi Foundation representative said a rescue team was despatched to Mawach Goth’s Brohi Mohalla, where a minor boy had fallen in an open manhole, adding that they fished out the boy’s body and took it to the nearby Murshid Hospital, where he was identified as Tahir Shakeel.

Mawach Goth falls under the jurisdictions of the Mochko and Saeedabad police stations, but the former’s Head Moharir Raja Sanawar and the latter’s SHO Shakeel Sherwani claimed that no such incident had occurred.

When the Edhi Foundation was contacted for confirmation, they provided The News with the mobile phone number of the ambulance driver who had taken the boy’s body to the hospital. The driver, Raees Khan, confirmed that he and his team had fished out the minor’s body from a manhole in Brohi Mohalla and taken it to the Murshid Hospital, but the boy’s family took the body away without completing any medico-legal formalities.

Khan said that when he had gone to Brohi Mohalla to fish out the body, he saw many open manholes in the area and children playing around them. Even after The News shared the driver’s statement with the Mochko and Saeedabad police stations, the officials again insisted that no such incident had taken place in Mawach Goth.