Search on for teen feared drowned in Umdasagar
A 19-year-old student who went missing from his house at Dabeerpura after offering afternoon prayers on Monday reportedly drowned in the Umdasagar lake at Jalpally later in the evening. Though the State Disaster Response Force (DRF) personnel tried for over 10 hours, they could not retrieve the body.
The victim, Mohammed bin Awad was supposed to come home for lunch by 2.30 pm. When he did not return on Monday, his father Mohammed bin Omar with family members started searching for him and learnt that Awad, along with two friends, Mohammed Abdullah and Syed
Amir, were seen going on a bike towards Charminar around 1.40 pm. “I started calling my son's mobile. It kept ringing but he did not answer nor did he call back. At around 3 pm, I got a call from my son's phone. His friends Abdullah and Amir asked me to immediately go to the lake and switched off the phone,” Omar said. He said that his son had not mentioned their names before. The lake is 30 foot deep and the water is muddy with sharp stones and water plants and very dangerous for swimming.
On reaching the lake, Omar heard that his son had drowned. “When we visited the spot, it was dark. Around 7 am on Tuesday a team of 20 SRDF and safety personnel reached the spot to retrieve the body,” Omar said. He said a local, Mahesh, had informed him that three youths on a bike had come for swimming in the Umdasagar and were warned by locals to stay away as it was dangerous. The trio took an alternative route to the lake. The locals followed them and reached the spot where Abdullah and Amir were.