Two teenagers drown in muddy Gurgaon pond
GURGAON: Within a span of an hour, three people died in two drowning incidents in Gurgaon on Sunday, police said.
In the first incident, two teenage boys — both children of labourers hailing from Bihar — died on Sunday evening after they drowned in a pond in Kadipur village near Sector 10A.
Police have identified the victims as Aakash, a resident of Vikas Nagar, and Adarsh, a resident of Ravi Nagar. Both of them were 16 years old and were cousins, police said.
Police said t he i ncident occurred around 4pm, when the two boys had gone to bathe in the pond and drowned as the ‘water was extremely muddy’.
A friend who had accompanied them on the outing was shooting videos of the two in deep waters from a distance. “A man in a nearby gym noticed the two boys drowning and alerted bystanders and the police. Bystanders managed to pull their bodies out and the two were rushed to the Civil Hospital in a semi-conscious state, but they had swallowed a lot of dirty water, and died under treatment. Their bodies have been sent for postmortem and a report is expected on Monday,” inspector Yashwant Singh, station house officer of Sector 10 police station said.
According to the police, the friend had gone to alert the family members of the victims when they started drowning. “Ii was an accident and, hence, no case has been registered regarding the matter,” Singh added.
In the second incident, a 32-year-old woman drowned and died after she lost her balance and slipped while attempting to immerse religious offerings at a pond on Darbaripur road in Badshahpur around 5pm.
The victim has been identified as Seema, who was accompanied by her niece who was standing at a distance when Seema accidentally slipped into the pond.“as the pond was filled with mud, Seema slipped and got pulled into the water. After receiving information, officials from the police and the fire department pulled out her body,” sub-inspector Satyavender Singh of Badshahpur police station, said.