Boy drowns in flooded cellar of an under-construction building
The Hindu
A food delivery executive and three others rescue a second boy who had jumped in to save his friend
Heavy rains and lack of basic safety precautions have claimed yet another life, this time at a construction site in HBR Layout 2nd stage near the BDA Complex. A 14-year-old boy who was playing with his friends drowned when he slipped and fell into a flooded cellar of an under-construction building on Tuesday afternoon. “The cellar which had a sump was filled with rainwater up to 10 ft,” said a police officer.
His friend who jumped into the cellar to try to save him almost drowned but was rescued by a food delivery partner and three other adults in the area who heard the children crying for help.
The deceased teenager, Chandru, had lost his mother to COVID-19 during the first wave, and lived with his father, a labourer from Tamil Nadu, in K.G Halli along with other family members.
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