Mother And Child Drown In Delhi's Ghazipur Drain After Heavy Downpour Cause Waterlogging

A 22-year-old woman and his three-year-old son drowned in a waterlogged drain near Khoda Colony in Delhi’s Ghazipur on Wednesday following incessant rainfall.

According to police, the deceased Tanuja and her three-year-old son Priyansh had gone to buy household items from a weekly market. The pair was on the way back when it started raining. The road was waterlogged, and Tanuja got slipped and fell into an open drain with her son. The roadside drain was under construction.

Hours later, they both were brought out with the help of divers and cranes about 500 m away, the mother still clutching her son’s hand. The duo was taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where doctors declared them dead, the police officer said.