Three youngsters are feared drowned at Mumbai’s Versova beach during Ganesh visarjan on Sunday, while two others were safely rescued. The rescue operation is on. One person died in Pune’s Pimpri Chinchwad area.
The IMD had forecasted heavy rains and inclement weather in Mumbai region owing to a cyclonic circulation is developing over the Bay of Bengal.
An 18-year-old man died and another person was feared drowned during immersion in Alandi Road area of Pimpri Chinchwad near Pune city on Sunday evening. The body of the deceased, identified as Prajwal Kale, was fished out, while the search was on for Datta Thombre (20), who had entered the river water along with Kale. Police said that they were part of a group that had gone to the Indrayani river to immerse the Ganesh idol around 6 pm. “Kale and Thombre ventured into the water along with others to immerse the idol. But since both of them did not know swimming they could not fathom the depth of the water and drowned,” a police officer from Pimpri Chinchwad said. Kale’s body was fished out with the help of the fire brigade staff, he said.
A total of 2,185 idols of Lord Ganesh and Goddess Gauri were immersed till Sunday afternoon in various water bodies in Mumbai as curtains came down on the 10-day Ganpati festival held amid various restrictions imposed for the second year in a row in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival, which in normal times used to witness large gatherings and long queues on streets outside public mandals which host the celebrations, began on September 10. This year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) set up artificial lakes at 173 locations in the city, as well as idol collection centres and mobile immersion sites at various places to avoid crowding in the wake of the pandemic.
(With PTI inputs)
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