04 June 2009

Agonising Wait for Six-year-old Abhishek's Body



BANGALORE, Jun 3: More than two days later and still counting, the body of six-year-old Abhishek Prakash, who was washed away in an open drain on Sunday night in Lingarajpuram, has still not been recovered.
Rescue efforts spread close to 10 km away from the boy’s modest house on Lokesh Tent Road.

The search was called off for the day around 7 p.m. on Tuesday after the squads of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike and the Fire Department worked all day scouring the drainage lines till the Nagavara Tank in vain.

S. Puttuswamy, Additional Commissioner (East), BBMP, told The Hindu he would depute four additional batches of pourakarmikas on Wednesday to resume the search even if it meant extending it to the raja kaluve (main stormwater drain).

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