Boy drowns in pit while chasing kite in Kandivali

A 10-year-old boy drowned in a pit made to store cow dung in Dahanukar Wadi area of Kandivali (W) while chasing a kite that had been cut off during the Makar Sankranti celebrations on Thursday evening. The boy, identified as Durvesh Jadhav, entered a cowshed and stepped on the five-foot cow dung pit to get the kite, but fell into it and died.

The Kandivali Police registered an accidental death report (ADR) in the matter and will investigate the matter closely. Police said Jadhav, a resident of an SRA Building in Kandivali, noticed a kite had cut off from string and followed to catch it. In the bid, he entered a cowshed premises and stood on a cowdung pit. "Jadhav didn't realise it was a gutter and he fell into it. A man saw Jadhav drowning from his seventh floor and rushed to his rescue. But Jadhav had drowned by then," said Babasaheb Salunkhe, senior inspector of Kandivali police station.